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newlywed

[noo-lee-wed, nyoo-] / ˈnu liˌwɛd, ˈnyu- /


NOUN
bridegroom
Synonyms
Antonyms
WEAK


Example Sentences

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When she was a newlywed in the early 1980s, she took a tax course to get some practice filing returns.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 23, 2026

Victorian audiences were repelled by Henrik Ibsen’s fatally attractive newlywed who appears to have it all — the fancy house, the doting husband — only to be violently bored.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 22, 2025

Pictures of tourists fleeing the island were splashed across newspaper front pages and one newlywed couple from Glasgow described it as like "being thrown into a disaster film".

From BBC • Jun. 17, 2025

A young, newlywed couple was taking a tour with a real estate agent, and they joined.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 13, 2025

On their honeymoon, they traveled to Greece, and Sofía sent her mother and father and sisters postcards like any newlywed.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez