bridge – English noun declension

English noun forms of bridge

Noun: bridge
Singularbridge
Pluralbridges

Sample Sentences

  • The rope bridge crosses the river.
  • It was a beautiful view from the Brooklyn Bridge.
  • Now we plunged into a deep shade with the boughs lacing each other overhead, and crossed dainty, rustic bridges over the cold trout-streams, the boards giving back the clatter of our horses' feet: or anon we shot into a clearing, with a colored glimpse of the lake and its curving shore far below us. [1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:]
  • Floods in northern India, mostly in the small state of Uttarakhand, have wrought disaster on an enormous scale. The early, intense onset of the monsoon on June 14th swelled rivers, washing away roads, bridges, hotels and even whole villages. Rock-filled torrents smashed vehicles and homes, burying victims under rubble and sludge. [2013 June 29, “High and wet”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 28:]
  • Rugby players often break the bridge of their noses.
  • The dentist pulled out the decayed tooth and put in a bridge.
  • The first officer is on the bridge.
  • Yes, France is geographically situated in a key position so far as Western Europe is concerned. They are really the bridge between Germany, Spain and Italy. And it was necessary to have a NATO organization that was unified and France was a necessary member of that organization. [1964, Harry S. Truman, 0:18 from the start, in MP2002-479 Former President Truman Recalls Negotiating With DeGaulle and France after WWII, Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives Identifier: 595162:]
  • ECMO is used as a bridge to surgery to stabilize the patient.
  • This chip is the bridge between the front-side bus and the I/O bus.
  • The plugin also acts as a bridge with BuddyPress and adds things like the top admin bar, and so on. [2011, Thord Daniel Hedengren, Smashing WordPress Themes: Making WordPress Beautiful:]
  • The LAN bridge uses a spanning tree algorithm.
  • The lyrics in the song's bridge inverted its meaning.
  • In the bridge of his 2011 song "It Will Rain", Bruno Mars begs his lover not to "say goodbye."
  • see for the card game of contract bridge.

Etymology

1. From Middle English brigge, from Old English brycġ (“bridge”), from Proto-West Germanic *bruggju, from Proto-Germanic *brugjō, *brugjǭ (“bridge”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerw-, *bʰrēw- (“wooden flooring, decking, bridge”).
2. Cognates
3. Cognate with Scots brig, brigg (“bridge”), Yola burge (“bridge”), North Frisian brag, Bröch (“bridge”), Saterland Frisian Brääch, Brääg (“bridge”), West Frisian brêge (“bridge”), Dutch brug (“bridge”), German Brücke (“bridge”), Limburgish brögk (“bridge”), Luxembourgish Bréck (“bridge”), Vilamovian bryk (“bridge”), Yiddish בריק (brik, “bridge”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål brygge (“jetty, pier, wharf”), Faroese, Icelandic bryggja (“pier”), Norwegian Nynorsk brygge, bryggje (“jetty, pier, wharf”), Swedish brygga (“bridge; pier”).
4. The verb is from Middle English briggen, from Old English brycġian (“to bridge, make a causeway, pave”), derived from the noun. Cognate with Dutch bruggen (“to bridge”), Middle Low German bruggen (“to bridge”), Old High German bruccōn (“to bridge”) (whence Modern German brücken).
5. The sense of a part of a stringed instrument is a semantic loan from German Steg, from Old High German steg. See: Middle English Nouns 'brigge', Dutch Nouns 'brug', German Nouns 'Brücke', Norwegian Bokmål Nouns 'brygge', Icelandic Nouns 'bryggja', Swedish Nouns 'brygga', Old English Nouns 'brycġian'.

Verbs referencing "bridge"

Catalan Nouns bridge, Danish Nouns bridge, Dutch Nouns bridge, Finnish Nouns bridge, French Nouns bridge, Italian Nouns bridge, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns bridge, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns bridge, German Nouns Bridge, German Nouns Brücke, Danish Nouns brygge, Bulgarian Nouns бридж, Icelandic Nouns bridds, Old Norse Nouns bryggja, Hungarian Nouns bridzs, Spanish Nouns brichero, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns bryggje.