bride vs counterpart

bride

noun
  • Coordinate terms: bridegroom, groom 

  • A woman in the context of her own wedding; one who is going to marry or has just been married. 

  • an individual loop or other device connecting the patterns in lacework 

counterpart

noun
  • Either of two parts that fit together, or complement one another. 

  • One who or that which resembles another. 

  • A duplicate of a legal document. 

  • One who or that which has corresponding functions or characteristics. 

  • Either half of a flattened fossil when the rock has split along the plane of the fossil. 

verb
  • To counterbalance. 

How often have the words bride and counterpart occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )