"war bride" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: En-au-war bride.ogg [Australia] Forms: war brides [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} war bride (plural war brides)
  1. A woman who marries a man who is on active military duty in wartime; especially, a woman who marries a foreign soldier serving in her country and then emigrates to his. Categories (topical): Marriage Translations (woman): válečná nevěsta (Czech), oorlogsbruid (Dutch), sotamorsian (Finnish), Soldatenbraut (German), Kriegsbraut (German), pengantin wanita masa perang (Indonesian), vojnová nevesta (Slovak), mujer de militar (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-war_bride-en-noun-hFiFcB41 Disambiguation of Marriage: 56 44 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 56 44 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 69 31 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 69 31 Disambiguation of 'woman': 100 0
  2. (idiomatic) A company or individual whose business is increased by warfare. Tags: idiomatic Coordinate_terms: war widow
    Sense id: en-war_bride-en-noun-o-ESRLeb

Inflected forms

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