bride

英 [bra?d] 美[bra?d]

反義詞

CET4TEM4考研中低頻詞常用詞匯

復(fù)數(shù):?brides;

1. 在婚禮上，新婚夫妻中那個(gè)不是騎馬的人。

bride 新娘

詞源同bread, 面包。女人結(jié)婚后工作職責(zé)之一。比較wife, 詞源同weave.

bride: bride: [OE] Bride goes back via Old English bryd to Germanic *brūthiz, and has a wide range of relations in other Germanic languages (including German braut, Dutch bruid, and Swedish brud). All mean ‘woman being married’, so the word has shown remarkable semantic stability; but where it came from originally is not known. In modern English bridal is purely adjectival, but it originated in the Old English noun brydealu ‘wedding feast’, literally ‘bride ale’.
bride (n.): Old English bryd "bride, betrothed or newly married woman," from Proto-Germanic *bruthiz "woman being married" (cognates: Old Frisian breid, Dutch bruid, Old High German brut, German Braut "bride"). Gothic cognate bruts, however, meant "daughter-in-law," and the form of the word borrowed from Old High German into Medieval Latin (bruta) and Old French (bruy) had only this sense. In ancient Indo-European custom, the married woman went to live with her husband's family, so the only "newly wed female" in such a household would have been the daughter-in-law. On the same notion, some trace the word itself to the PIE verbal root *bru- "to cook, brew, make broth," as this likely was the daughter-in-law's job.

5. Raise your glasses and drink to the bride and bridegroom.: 請(qǐng)大家舉杯為新娘新郎干杯.