Bridal vs Bride - What's the difference?
bridal | bride |
A wedding feast or festival; a wedding.
* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , VI.10:
Of or pertaining to a bride, or to wedding; nuptial.
A woman who is going to marry or who has just been married.
* Bible, (w) xxi. 9
* (1709-1773)
* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers)
, chapter=6, title= An object ardently loved.
(obsolete) To make a bride of.
Bride is a derived term of bridal.
Bride is a related term of bridal.
As nouns the difference between bridal and bride
is that bridal is a wedding feast or festival; a wedding while bride is a woman who is going to marry or who has just been married.As an adjective bridal
is of or pertaining to a bride, or to wedding; nuptial.As a verb bride is
to make a bride of.bridal
English
Noun
(en noun)- the crowne, which Ariadne wore / Upon her yvory forehead, that same day / That Theseus her unto his bridal bore […].
Adjective
(-)- bridal''' ornaments; a '''bridal''' outfit; a '''bridal chamber
Derived terms
* bridal coupleAnagrams
*bride
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- I will show thee the bride , the Lamb's wife.
- Has by his own experience tried / How much the wife is dearer than the bride .
A Cuckoo in the Nest, passage=Sophia broke down here. Even at this moment she was subconsciously comparing her rendering of the part of the forlorn bride with Miss Marie Lohr's.}}