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bridegroom Definition

bride·groom (brīd′gro̵̅o̅m′)

noun

a man who has just been married or is about to be married

Etymology: ME bridegome < OE brydguma, suitor < bryd, bride + guma (akin to L homo), man; altered by folk etym. after groom

bridegroom Synonyms

bridegroom

n.

groom, benedict, husband, spouse; see husband.

bridegroom Usage Examples

Possessives

  • voice: He is thrilled that he gets to hear the bridegroom's voice.
  • friend: The bridegroom's friend, standing and hearing him, is to rejoice greatly because of the bridegroom's voice.
  • father: The bridegroom's father was formerly Rector of Gt Waldingfield.
  • party: People belonging to the bridegroom's party thought that he was some respected elder from the side of the bride.
  • family: However, in Kerala it is the bridegroom's family who pay a dowry to the brides family.

Preposition: of

  • blood: Then it was that she said, " You are a bridegroom of blood, " because of the circumcision.

Converse of object

  • meet: There were ten girls, who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom.
  • call: The master of the wedding called the bridegroom and said to him, " People always serve the best wine first.
  • hear: He is thrilled that he gets to hear the bridegroom 's voice.
  • do: Does the bridegroom have a pathalogical dislike for a certain color?
  • have: So long as they have the bridegroom with them, they cannot fast.
  • attend: The friend who attends the bridegroom waits and listens for him, and is full of joy when he hears the bridegroom's voice.

Adjective modifier

  • prospective: In order to obtain a wife, a negotiated brideprice has to be paid by the prospective bridegroom to the father of the bride.
  • young: It is the story of a young bridegroom who died in his sleep just ten days into his honeymoon in Sri Lanka.
  • glorious: Yet where is the man or woman that is prevailed with to enter a match with this glorious bridegroom?
  • new: When he asked what they were waiting for, the new bridegroom said, " Please sir, you haven't kissed Molly.

Modifies a noun

  • rejoiceth: Shall ' the Lord be said to rejoice over a man as a bridegroom rejoiceth over his bride?
  • couple: The most common personalized item would be name brand chocolate bars with wonderfully designed labels to reflect the bridegroom couple.
  • cometh: And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him.
bridegroom Quotes

O wha's the bride that cairries the bunch O'thistles blinterin' white? Her cuckold bridegroom little dreids What he sall ken this nicht.

—Grieve

But for his funeral trainwhichthe bridegroomsees in the distance, Would he so joyfully, think you, fall in with the marriage- procession?

—Clough, Arthur Hugh

'He is coming! he is coming!' Like a bridegroom from his room, Came the hero from his prison To the scaffold and the doom.

—Aytoun,William Edmonstoune