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UK
/bɹˈaɪdɡɹuːm/
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[ US /ˈbɹaɪdˌɡɹum/ ]
[ US /ˈbɹaɪdˌɡɹum/ ]
NOUN
- a man participant in his own marriage ceremony
- a man who has recently been married
How To Use bridegroom In A Sentence
- Both the bridegroom and bride usually wear formal clothes for this event.
- The bridegroom is a graduate of Florida A&M University.
- Thus before World War II bridegrooms were 27 year old on the average and brides 23.
- The bride and bridegroom signed the register.
- M. le Comte's guests followed closely on the triumphant bridegroom's heels: M. le préfet, fussy and nervous, secretly delighted at the idea of affixing his official signature to such an aristocratic _contrat de mariage_ as was this between M.le. de Cambray de Brestalou and M. Victor de M.rmont, own nephew to M.rshal the duc de Raguse; M.dame la préfète, resplendent in the latest fashion from Paris, the Duc and Duchesse d'Embrun, cousins of the bride, the Vicomte de Génevois and his mother, who was Abbess of Pont Haut and godmother by proxy to Crystal de The Bronze Eagle A Story of the Hundred Days
- In Psalms, to which St John the Baptist alludes, the trope of the ‘bridegroom’ occurs in a series of parallelisms, balanced by an explicitly competitive image.
- Good wishes showered on the bride and bridegroom.
- Stretched upon a low child's bed, of the sort called trundle-bed in those days, which could be wheeled under the high-legged bed of the parents, lay the bridegroom, in his wedding-dress and gaitered shoes, with his steeple-crowned hat upon the faded calico quilt beside him, and his face as red as burning fever could make it. The Entailed Hat Or, Patty Cannon's Times
- The bridegroom was late for the ceremony.
- By and by, when in her turn, back in the festally decorated house, she came to give the newly married pair her felicitations, she was well pleased to see Stuart quite himself again, smiling at her with the proud look of the bridegroom from whom no human being can wrest the prize he has just secured. Under the Country Sky