Word Meanings - BRIDAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to a bride, or to wedding; nuptial; as, bridal ornaments; a bridal outfit; a bridal chamber.

HYMENEAL; HYMENEAN
Of or pertaining to marriage; as, hymeneal rites. Pope.
CONNUBIAL
Of or pertaining to marriage, or the marriage state; conjugal; nuptial. Nor Eve the rites Mysterious of connubial love refused. Milton. Kind, connubial tenderness. Goldsmith.
CONNUBIALITY
The quality of being connubial; something characteristics of the conjugal state; an expression of connubial tenderness. Some connubialities which had begun to pass between Mr. and Mrs. B. Dickens.
BRIDAL
Of or pertaining to a bride, or to wedding; nuptial; as, bridal ornaments; a bridal outfit; a bridal chamber.
NUPTIAL
Of or pertaining to marriage; done or used at a wedding; as, nuptial rites and ceremonies. Then, all in heat, They light the nuptial torch. Milton. (more info) nubere, nuptum, prop., to cover, to veil, hence, to marry, as the
BRIDALTY
Celebration of the nuptial feast. "In honor of this bridalty." B. Jonson.
ANTENUPTIAL
Preceding marriage; as, an antenuptial agreement. Kent.
POSTNUPTIAL
Being or happening after marriage; as, a postnuptial settlement on a wife. Kent.