Definition of "newlywed" []

• A person recently married. (noun)

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• "But the term newlywed isn't quite accurate, so Diane Harris, 71, coined a new one."
• "At the Sheraton, Abdullah recalls a newlywed couple scrambling out of their honeymoon suite, wrapped only in bedsheets, when the hotel and the next-door Palestine Hotel were attacked in a suicide bombing in 2005."
• "Aww, people say that two years are the "newlywed" phase- but we've been married for a little over six years and still feel like newlyweds!"