What does bridegroom mean?

Definitions for bridegroom
ˈbraɪdˌgrum, -ˌgrʊmbride·groom

This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word bridegroom.

Princeton's WordNet

  1. groom, bridegroomnoun

    a man who has recently been married

  2. groom, bridegroomnoun

    a man participant in his own marriage ceremony

Wiktionary

  1. bridegroomnoun

    a man on his wedding day, just before it or small time after that

  2. Etymology: From brydguma, from bryd + guma, influenced by groom through folk etymology.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Bridegroomnoun

    A new married man.

    Etymology: from bride and groom.

    As are those dulcet sounds in break of day,
    That creep into the dreaming bridegroom’s ear,
    And summon him to marriage. William Shakespeare, Merch. of Venice.

    Why, happy bridegroom!
    Why dost thou steal so soon away to bed? Dryden.

Wikipedia

  1. Bridegroom

    A bridegroom (often shortened to groom) is a man who is about to be married or who is newlywed. When marrying, the bridegroom's future spouse (if female) is usually referred to as the bride. A bridegroom is typically attended by a best man and groomsmen.

ChatGPT

  1. bridegroom

    A bridegroom is a man on his wedding day, or just before or after the event. He is typically engaged in marrying a woman and is hence committed to being her husband. The term is often shortened to "groom".

Webster Dictionary

  1. Bridegroomnoun

    a man newly married, or just about to be married

Editors Contribution

  1. bridegroom

    A male to marry.

    The groom was so looking forward to seeing his bride on their wedding day.


    Submitted by MaryC on January 11, 2020  

Etymology and Origins

  1. Bridegroom

    The word groom comes from the Gothic and Anglo-Saxon guma, man, allied to the Latin homo, man. It still expresses a man-servant who grooms or attends to his master’s horse.

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. BRIDEGROOM

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Bridegroom is ranked #88020 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Bridegroom surname appeared 211 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Bridegroom.

    94.3% or 199 total occurrences were White.
    2.8% or 6 total occurrences were of two or more races.
    2.3% or 5 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of bridegroom in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of bridegroom in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of bridegroom in a Sentence

  1. Adamu Illiya:

    Relations and friends of the groom and bridegroom were just gathering when the bomb explosions happened.

  2. Will Rogers:

    Elections are a good deal like marriages, there's no accounting for anyone's taste. Every time we see a bridegroom we wonder why she ever picked him, and it's the same with Public Officials.

  3. Franklin Graham:

    From the time of Christ’s birth on that first Christmas morning, to His sacrificial death on the cross, to His resurrection from the tomb, the Bible only refers to Jesus Christ as a male, the Bible has many names for Jesus, including Son of God, Son of Man, Prince of Peace, King of Kings, and the bridegroom of the Church.

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