war bride: meaning & examples
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Meanings:
- A woman who married a member of the armed forces during or immediately after a war and who often emigrated to live with her spouse in his country.
- A classification used historically for immigration and legal purposes to describe women entering a country to join husbands serving in the military.
Examples
BetaMy grandmother was a war bride who moved to Canada after marrying my grandfather during World War II.
My grandmother was a war bride who moved to Canada after marrying my grandfather during World War II.
Many war brides faced challenges adapting to life in their husbands’ new countries after the war.
Many war brides faced challenges adapting to life in their husbands’ new countries after the war.
She became a war bride when she married an American soldier stationed overseas.
She became a war bride when she married an American soldier stationed overseas.
The museum exhibit included stories of war brides who helped rebuild families torn apart by conflict.
The museum exhibit included stories of war brides who helped rebuild families torn apart by conflict.
Examples:
- EN: I Had taken it upon myself to Have my Hair dyed the day before I went to Iowa because I bad an image in my mind of a woman tbat lived up tbe street from me wben I was a girl growing up and sbe was an italian war bride.ES: Se me ocurrió teñirme el pelo el día antes de ir a Iowa... porque tenía en mi mente una imagen... de una mujer que vivía en mi calle cuando yo era niña, una esposa de guerra italiana.
- EN: You play your cards right, and you could end up with a war bride.ES: Si juegas bien tus cartas, puedes conseguirte una esposa de guerra.
- EN: That I would be this war bride.ES: Que yo sería una novia de guerra.
- EN: She was a war bride, and she taught my mom to play the Wurlitzer organ at the Palace after the war. Wow.ES: Era una novia de la guerra, y le enseñó a mi mamá a tocar el órgano Wurlitzer en el Palace después de la guerra.
- EN: - Sam, do you know that I was a young wife, a young mother, and a young war bride?ES: Sam, ¿sabes que fui una joven esposa, una joven madre y una joven novia de guerra?
- EN: A war bride, who, after learning her husband died serving in France, took her own life.ES: Una novia de guerra que, tras enterarse de la muerte de su marido... sirviendo en Francia, se quitó la vida.
- EN: I would qualify as a war bride.HI: दुल्हन के जैसा बनाऊंगी ।
- EN: One of the war bride situations.HI: जब युद्ध होता है
- EN: "...permission to enter the US as a war bride has been granted".ES: "... La entrada a EEUU como novia de guerra le ha sido concedida".
- EN: Major, for your information, I am a war bride.ES: Mayor, para su información, soy una novia de guerra.
- EN: A war bride?ES: ¿Una novia de guerra?
- EN: "One war bride, male".ES: "Una novia de guerra macho".
- EN: I'm a war bride.ES: Soy una novia de guerra.
- EN: I am a war bride.ES: Soy una novia de guerra.
- EN: I was a war bride.ES: Fui una novia en tiempos de guerra.
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