bride vs wife

bride

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

  • Coordinate terms: bridegroom, groom 

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

wife

noun
  • A married woman, especially in relation to her spouse. 

  • The female of a pair of mated animals. 

  • Synonym of woman. 

verb
  • to marry (a woman) 

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