Definition of "bride" []

• A woman who is about to be married or has recently been married. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Well, give me the first salute of your fair bride; -- _and for your bride_"
• "Moody Stuart observes as to this Canticle (So 3: 6-5: 1), the center of the Book, these characteristics: (1) The bridegroom takes the chief part, whereas elsewhere the bride is the chief speaker."
• "He compares our Saviour to the bridegroom: He that hath the bride is the bridegroom."