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Meaning of hell bride | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

A female monster or demon; a hag, ogress, harpy or the like.

literary

Examples

“Grendel's mother, monstrous hell-bride, brooded on her wrongs.”
“While we moviegoers are nothing but grateful to Gaiman and Avery for their part in bringing us Ms. Jolie as the serpentine and mostly-naked hell-bride, there are scores of scholars out there who're peeved[.]”
“I knew then, I'd left too late to flee the curse, the harrowing rumours of a hag, a hell-bride, instead of a warrior queen[.]”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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