"Bridget" meaning in English

See Bridget in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Proper name

IPA: /ˈbɹɪd͡ʒɪt/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Bridget.wav
Rhymes: -ɪdʒɪt Etymology: English form of the Irish saints' name Brighid, Brigid. Doublet of Bride. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*bʰerǵʰ-}}, {{der|en|ga|-}} Irish, {{doublet|en|Bride}} Doublet of Bride Head templates: {{en-proper noun}} Bridget
  1. A female given name from Irish. Categories (topical): English female given names, English given names Translations (female given name): Berc'hed (Breton), Brec'hed (Breton), 布麗奇特 (Chinese Mandarin), 布丽奇特 (Bùlìqíte) (Chinese Mandarin), Brigita [feminine] (Czech), Birgitte (Danish), Birgita (Esperanto), Piret (Estonian), Birita [feminine] (Faroese), Pirkko (Finnish), Brigitte (French), ბრიგიტა (brigiṭa) (Georgian), Brigitte (German), Bikki (Greenlandic), Bríd [feminine] (Irish), Brighid (note: pre-spelling reform) [feminine] (Irish), Brigida (Italian), Brigitta [feminine] (Italian), Brigita [feminine] (Latvian), Brigita [feminine] (Lithuanian), Breeshey [feminine] (Manx), Biret (Northern Sami), Birgitte (Norwegian), Brígiða [feminine] (Old Norse), Brygida [feminine] (Polish), Brígida [feminine] (Portuguese), Бриги́тта (Brigítta) [feminine] (Russian), Бри́джит (Brídžit) [feminine] (Russian), Brìghde (Scottish Gaelic), Brigida (Spanish), Birgitta (Swedish), Birgit (Swedish), Brigitta (Vietnamese), Ffraid [feminine] (Welsh)
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Noun

IPA: /ˈbɹɪd͡ʒɪt/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Bridget.wav Forms: Bridgets [plural]
Rhymes: -ɪdʒɪt Etymology: English form of the Irish saints' name Brighid, Brigid. Doublet of Bride. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*bʰerǵʰ-}}, {{der|en|ga|-}} Irish, {{doublet|en|Bride}} Doublet of Bride Head templates: {{en-noun}} Bridget (plural Bridgets)
  1. (US, dated) An Irish housemaid. Tags: US, dated
    Sense id: en-Bridget-en-noun-Ww4egrBn Categories (other): American English, Terms with Irish translations Disambiguation of Terms with Irish translations: 53 47

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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          "ref": "c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], page 45:",
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          "text": "Of all the beautiful Christian names of women which were in use a century or two ago Brighid (Breed), under the ugly form of Bridget, or still worse, Biddy, and Eiblin under the form of Eveleen, and perhaps Norah, seem to be the only survivals, and they are becoming rarer.",
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      "code": "br",
      "lang": "Breton",
      "sense": "female given name",
      "word": "Berc'hed"
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      "sense": "female given name",
      "word": "布麗奇特"
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      "word": "Brigita"
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      "word": "Birgitte"
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      "sense": "female given name",
      "word": "Birgita"
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      "sense": "female given name",
      "word": "Piret"
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      "sense": "female given name",
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      "sense": "female given name",
      "word": "Pirkko"
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      "sense": "female given name",
      "word": "Brigitte"
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      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "brigiṭa",
      "sense": "female given name",
      "word": "ბრიგიტა"
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      "sense": "female given name",
      "word": "Brigitte"
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      "code": "kl",
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      "sense": "female given name",
      "word": "Bikki"
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      "word": "Brighid"
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      "sense": "female given name",
      "word": "Brigida"
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      "code": "it",
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      "word": "Brigitta"
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      "word": "Breeshey"
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      "code": "se",
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      "sense": "female given name",
      "word": "Biret"
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      "sense": "female given name",
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      "word": "Brygida"
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      "sense": "female given name",
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          "ref": "1891, Ellen Battelle Dietrick, Good Housekeeping:",
          "text": "So long as any Bridget just landed (even before she has learned to walk comfortably in American shoes) can be sure of four dollars a week and her board and prequisites, it is the Bridgets who are really mistress of the situation.",
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        },
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          "ref": "1936 June 30, Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC; republished New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, 1944, →OCLC, part IV, page 671:",
          "text": "My nurse, my Bridget, has gone back North. She said she wouldn’t stay another day down here among the ‘naygurs’ as she calls them.",
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          "ref": "2009, Aife Murray, Maid as Muse: How Servants Changed Emily Dickinson's Life and Language:",
          "text": "Beggar lads, emigrants, mowers, slaves, rustics, Malays, Bridgets, and porters peopled her work […]",
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