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Definition of Bridegroom
1. Noun. A man who has recently been married.
2. Noun. A man participant in his own marriage ceremony.
Definition of Bridegroom
1. n. A man newly married, or just about to be married.
Definition of Bridegroom
1. Noun. a man on his wedding day, just before it or small time after that ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Bridegroom
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Bridegroom
1. A man newly married, or just about to be married. Origin: OE. Bridegome, brudgume, AS. Brdguma (akin to OS. Brdigumo, D. Bruidegom, bruigom, OHG. Prtigomo, MHG. Briutegome, G. Brautigam); AS. Brd bride + guma man, akin to Goth. Guma, Icel. Gumi, OHG. Gomo, L. Homo; the insertion of r being caused by confusion with groom. See Bride, and cf. Groom, Homage. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bridegroom
Literary usage of Bridegroom
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1868)
"And after the "Pater" is said a pall is held over the heads of the bride and
bridegroom by the youngest boys — the nearest relatives of each family. ..."
2. The Works of Thomas Shepard: First Pastor of the First Church, Cambridge by Thomas Shepard (1853)
"OF CHRIST COMING AS A bridegroom TO HIS OWN. SECTION I. Observ. 2. That the Lord
Jesus Christ shall come as a bridegroom to his own people, at his second ..."
3. The Knot Tied: Marriage Ceremonies of All Nations by William Tegg (1877)
"On the same morning, also, if the bridegroom is a young man, the person who ...
If the bridegroom is a person of the lower orders, he is conducted back in ..."
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