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It was post war. It was very gray, very dreary. Everything was still rationed when I first saw the United States in 1951. I went over to visit my sister who was a war bride.
John Mahoney

Meaning of "war bride" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF WAR BRIDE

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF WAR BRIDE

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War bride is a noun.
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WHAT DOES WAR BRIDE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

War bride

War bride is a term used in reference to wartime marriages between soldiers and foreigners, especially–but not exclusively–during World War I and World War II. One of the largest and best documented war bride phenomenons is American soldiers marrying German "Fräuleins" after World War II. By 1949, over 20,000 German war brides had emigrated to the US. Furthermore, it is estimated that there are "... 15,000 Australian women who married American servicemen based in Australia during World War II and moved to the US to be with their husbands". Allied servicemen also married many women in other countries where they were stationed at the end of the war, including France, Luxembourg, Philippines, and Japan. This also occurred in Korea and Vietnam with the later wars in those countries involving U.S. troops and other anti-communist soldiers. As many as 100,000 GI war brides left the United Kingdom, 150,000 to 200,000 hailed from continental Europe, 15,500 from Australia and 1,500 from New Zealand, between the years 1942 and 1952. In 2008 the Royal British Columbia Museum in Victoria, B.C., Canada, had as its major exhibit paintings by Calgary artist Bev Tosh.

Definition of war bride in the English dictionary

The definition of war bride in the dictionary is a soldier's bride met as a result of troop movements in wartime, esp a foreign national.

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WORDS THAT END LIKE WAR BRIDE

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Synonyms and antonyms of war bride in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «war bride» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF WAR BRIDE

Find out the translation of war bride to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of war bride from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «war bride» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

战争新娘
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

novia de guerra
570 millions of speakers

English

war bride
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

युद्ध दुल्हन
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

العروس الحرب
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

война невесты
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

noiva guerra
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

যুদ্ধ বধূ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

épouse de guerre
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Pengantin perang
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Kriegsbraut
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

戦争花嫁
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

전쟁 신부
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Perang pengantin
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

chiến tranh cô dâu
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

போர் மணமகள்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

युद्ध वधू
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Savaş gelini
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

sposa di guerra
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

narzeczona wojna
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

війна нареченої
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

mireasa război
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

πόλεμο νύφη
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

oorlog bruid
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

krig brud
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

krig brud
5 millions of speakers

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about war bride

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2 QUOTES WITH «WAR BRIDE»

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John Mahoney
It was post war. It was very gray, very dreary. Everything was still rationed when I first saw the United States in 1951. I went over to visit my sister who was a war bride.
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John Mahoney
It was very gray, very dreary. Everything was still rationed when I first saw the United States in 1951. I went over to visit my sister who was a war bride.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WAR BRIDE»

Discover the use of war bride in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to war bride and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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War Brides
Alice Osbourne, the stolid daughter of the late vicar, is reeling from the news that Richard Fairfax broke their engagement to marry Evangeline Fontaine, an American girl from the Deep South.
Helen Bryan, 2012
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Tsuchino: My Japanese War Bride
Michael and Tsuchino's story of love transcends cultural and language barriers at a time in American history when marriage between two different races was a rare occurrence." ?
Michael J. Forrester, 2004
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A War Bride's Story: Risking It All for Love After World War II
Gwendoline Cramer was one of the 48,000 war brides transported to Canada by the Canadian government between 1942 and 1947.
Cynthia Faryon, 2004
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Emma Spaulding Bryant: Civil War Bride, Carpetbagger's Wife, ...
"In this collection of letters, Emma's writings reveal a woman of determination, faith, and integrity who embraced her own causes of women's rights and temperance while maintaining full support for her husband's controversial agenda.
Emma Frances Spaulding Bryant, Ruth Douglas Currie, 2004
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Issei, Nisei, War Bride: Three Generations of Japanese ...
The presentation of labor statistics is excellent.... This book is an important contribution, not only to Asian American Studies but to women's studies and the literature on labor and immigrant groups.
Evelyn Glenn, 2010
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Michi's Memories: The Story of a Japanese War Bride
This book tells the story of Michi, one of 650 Japanese war brides who arrived in Australia in the early 1950s.
Keiko Tamura, 2011
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Entangling Alliances: Foreign War Brides and American ...
Entangling Alliances draws on a rich array of sources to trace how war and postwar anxieties about power and national identity have long been projected onto war brides, and how these anxieties translate into public policies, particularly ...
Susan Zeiger, 2010
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Memories of a Big Sky British War Bride
"Memories of a Big Sky British War Bride" tells the story of her shocking transplant to a place where indoor plumbing was not yet universal and where her husband's "injun hating ways" would influence every aspect of her new life.
Irene Hope Hedrick, 2005
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Japanese War Brides in America: An Oral History
Reveals the stories of nineteen Japanese war brides whose assimilation into American culture forever influenced future generations.
Miki Ward Crawford, Katie Kaori Hayashi, Shizuko Suenaga, 2010
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Memoirs of a War Bride
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Mary Evaline Burroughs, 2008

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «WAR BRIDE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term war bride is used in the context of the following news items.
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War bride: Film tells journey from Japan to Pine City
Elmira native Kathryn Tolbert is among three veteran journalists and first-born daughters of Japanese war brides who plan to tell some of their stories before the ... «Elmira Star-Gazette, Jul 15»
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WWII airman gets second chance at life, love with war bride
World War II veteran Frank Hudson with military memorabilia and his granddaughter, DeAirra Dutler, and great granddaughter, Tehya Dutler, 2. «Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier, Jun 15»
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Dutch war brides commemorated at Calgary museum
Calgary artist Beverley Tosh spent nearly 15 years meeting with war brides like Aleyda Campbell, whose family took in Canadian soldiers to make them feel at ... «Globalnews.ca, May 15»
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The war brides who went in reverse
Bev Tosh's mother was a war bride, but not the way you would expect. ... After the war, the British brides, armed with one-way tickets, boarded converted troop ... «Hamilton Spectator, May 15»
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From desperation to 'Dank u wel!' (Thanks!)
They danced into the early morning, just a month after the curtain of war and ... Olga was part of the wave of Dutch war brides who came to Canada in 1946 to ... «London Free Press, May 15»
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Documentary on Japanese 'war brides' is gaining steam
Three women (Kathryn Tolbert, Lucy Craft and Karen Kasmauski) — all first-born daughters of Japanese war brides who immigrated to the U.S. in the 1950s to ... «The Japan Times, Apr 15»
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Artist pays tribute to war brides
Her war bride portrait project had personal influence and meaning for Tosh, whose own mother was a war bride from Saskatchewan and fell in love with a New ... «Rocky Mountain Outlook, Jan 15»
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Scots jihadi war bride back on Twitter and is now calling for the …
AQSA Mahmood fled to war-torn Syria last year to marry a fighter for the brutal ISIS regime that swept through the north of the country and parts of Iraq. «Scottish Daily Record, Nov 14»
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America's 'First Korean War Bride' Comes Home
Titled “A War Bride Named 'Blue' Comes Home,” the two-page feature captured the scene when a woman LIFE dubbed “the first Korean war bride to arrive in ... «TIME, Nov 14»
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Emotional War Bride Returns To Legendary Liner
A British war bride has spoken of her emotion at returning for the first time to see the legendary liner that brought her to a new life in post-war America. «Sky News, Nov 14»

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