bridegroom

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Recent Examples of bridegroom The happy couple are therefore within their rights not to reissue invitations that were previously declined merely because the date, the location and the entree (though not, perhaps, the bridegroom) have changed. Judith Martin, Sun Sentinel, 11 Apr. 2025 Renting out the bride (or bridegroom), even for short periods, does not strike Miss Manners as festive. Judith Martin, The Mercury News, 7 Oct. 2024 In the show, when a bridegroom from the U.K. is found dead days before his wedding, two cops must unravel the troubling case as turbulence unfolds in their own lives. Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 24 July 2023 Advertisement Yelena’s mother has her children choose the endings of their bedtime stories each night: a Russian ending (such as wolf eating a bride) or an American ending (the bridegroom cutting open the wolf’s stomach to release the happy bride). Carole Burns, Washington Post, 6 July 2023 See All Example Sentences for bridegroom
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bridegroom
Noun
  • With weddings being expensive — the average cost per guest is $284 in 2025, according to data compiled from The Knot — the bride and groom had to find a way to reduce their headcount.
    Ashlyn Robinette, PEOPLE, 24 Oct. 2025
  • The groom—short and burly, with thinning dark hair and eyes like coal—was weeks from his fortieth birthday.
    Ed Caesar, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The bride is getting married in December and asked the woman to be her maid of honor last year.
    Meredith Wilshere, PEOPLE, 25 Oct. 2025
  • The same goes for Charli XCX who, in a Danielle Frankel slip and Vivienne Westwood corset dress, made the case for uptight brides to let go of their pursuit of perfection and just let loose.
    Emily Mercer, Footwear News, 24 Oct. 2025

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“Bridegroom.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bridegroom. Accessed 27 Oct. 2025.

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