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Bridge
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bridge bridgé
English
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Etymology 1
English surname, from the noun en bridge.
Proper noun
en.
en occupational for a bridgekeeper
en habitational for someone living near a bridge or at a location called Bridge or Bridges
en toponymic for someone from en Bruges
en Bridgen.
en Bridges.
en village/and/cpar in dist/Canterbury co/Kent cc/England OS grid ref TR1854. Recorded as Brige in 1086 (DB), from en ang brycg. Parish map (Kent)
en unincorporated community co/Coos County s/Oregon c/USA, named for a river bridge.
Derived terms
en Bridgetown
See also
en Bridges Bridgen Burdge Burge
Etymology 2
See en bridge game.
Noun
-
en bridge game card game.
en 20 April 2000 gnohmon8715@my-deja.com Worst Grandmaster Ever rec.games.chess.analysis https://groups.google.com/g/rec.games.chess.analysis/c/JLDbaHwY29I/m/trE9qn4X6iIJ The weakest USAan GM Grandmaster of (somewhat modern) modern times apparently lost interest in Chess, and spent all his time playing Bridge, especially downstairs at the Marshall.
25 April 2010 [Deaths] Silbert, Michael Theodore https://web.archive.org/web/20261015102106/https://archive.nytimes.com/query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage-9E0DE5D7163AF936A15757C0A9669D8B63.html Michael, was a Grand Life Master at the game of Bridge.
30 June 2011 Dorothy (Dot) Jurukov https://web.archive.org/web/20261015102838/https://www.latimes.com/socal/glendale-news-press/news/tn-gnp-dorothy-dot-jurukov-20110630-story.html Her passion was playing Bridge,
References
Anagrams
en bdegir BIRGed begird
German
Etymology
de :bor en:bridge
From de en bridge
Pronunciation
de De-Bridge.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>)
Noun
n,-.sg
bridge (card game)
Declension
n,-.sg
Further reading
de Card games