bride

Meanings

Noun

• A woman in the context of her own wedding; one who is going to marry or has just been married.
• An object ardently loved.
• an individual loop or other device connecting the patterns in lacework

Verb

• to make a bride of

Origin

• From Middle English bride, from Old English brȳd, from Proto-Germanic *brūdiz. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Bräid, West Frisian breid, German Low German Bruut, Dutch bruid, German Braut, Danish brud, Swedish brud.
• Borrowed from French bride.