Bridge Definition

brĭj
bridged, bridges, bridging
noun
bridges
A structure built over a river, railroad, highway, etc. to provide a way across for vehicles or pedestrians.
Webster's New World
A thing that provides connection, contact, or transition.
A common language is a bridge between cultures.
Webster's New World
Something resembling or analogous to this structure in form or function.
A land bridge between the continents; a bridge of understanding between two countries.
American Heritage
The upper, bony part of the nose.
Webster's New World
The curved bow of a pair of eyeglasses fitting over the nose.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
verb
bridged, bridges, bridging
To build a bridge on or over.
Webster's New World
To cross by or as if by a bridge.
American Heritage
To provide a bridge, connection, transition, etc. across or between.
Webster's New World

(music) To transition from one piece or section of music to another without stopping.

We need to bridge that jam into "The Eleven".
Wiktionary
adjective
Designating or of products priced between the least expensive and the premium.
A bridge line.
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Synonyms:
idiom
burn one's bridges (behind one)
  • to commit oneself to a course from which there is no retreat
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Bridge

Noun

Singular:
bridge
Plural:
Bridges

Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Bridge

  • burn one's bridges (behind one)

Origin of Bridge

  • From Middle English brigge, from Old English brycġ (“bridge”), from Proto-Germanic *brugjō, *brugjǭ (“bridge”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerw-, *bʰrēw- (“wooden flooring, decking, bridge”). Cognate with Scots brig, brigg, breeg (“bridge”), Saterland Frisian Brääch (“bridge”), West Frisian brêge (“bridge”), Dutch brug (“bridge”), German Brücke (“bridge”), Danish bro (“bridge”) and brygge (“wharf”), Icelandic brú (“bridge”) and brygga (“pier”), Gaulish bríva (“bridge”), Old Church Slavonic бръвъно (brŭvŭno, “beam”) and Russian бревно (brevnó, “log”).

    From Wiktionary

  • The verb is from Middle English briggen, from Old English brycġian (“to bridge, make a causeway, pave”), derived from the noun. Cognate with Dutch bruggen (“to bridge”), Middle Low German bruggen (“to bridge”), Old High German bruccōn (“to bridge”) (whence Modern German brücken).

    From Wiktionary

  • Name of an older card game biritch, probably Russian бирич (biríč) - OED, or probably from Turkish bir-üç, "one-three".

    From Wiktionary

  • From earlier biritch (influenced by bridge) from Russian birich a call from Old Russian birichĭ

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Middle English brigge from Old English brycg bhrū- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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