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bridegroom

[brahyd-groom, -groom] / ˈbraɪdˌgrum, -ˌgrʊm /
NOUN
male marriage partner
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Antonyms
WEAK


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Assi said at least 65 people, including the bridegroom, were rescued on Monday, but 29 people, including children, were still missing.

From Seattle Times Jul. 19, 2022

If the bride cannot tolerate yielding the spotlight, even for a few minutes, to her own 90-year-old grandmother, perhaps someone should warn the bridegroom.

From Washington Post Jul. 19, 2022

"We got arrested together - Asya, our friends and even her parents," said the bridegroom.

From BBC May 27, 2022

Meg Lundstrom, a longtime friend of the bridegroom, said afterward, “I’ve been telling my friends that the smartest person I know is marrying the kindest person I know but I don’t know which is which.”

From New York Times Apr. 26, 2019

I would have for a new husband my own playmate, dear since childhood, who loved me so much he was to become a spirit bridegroom for my sake.

From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston

Similar to the forecourt of Grauman’s Chinese Theater, brides and bridegrooms left handprints and their names and wedding dates pressed into cement.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 25, 2025

He works with more than 50 bridegrooms a year, mainly wanting a second or third wife – but insists never with underage brides.

From The Guardian Sep. 1, 2018

Amichai starts in his usual modest, accessible way—he is sitting in a waiting room, with bridegrooms who are much younger than the poet.

From The New Yorker Jan. 4, 2016

Some tables, like one with a big pink wedding cake with two bridegrooms atop or another with life-size silhouettes at each place, were gleefully outlandish.

From New York Times Mar. 28, 2012

One contemporary critic described Les Noces as 'enough to convert intending brides and bridegrooms to celibacy’.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall




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