lady; steady; intended; future wife; wife-to-be(sea holly); girl; marriageable girl; fiancee(NB: fiance – male; fiancee – female); bride(NB: only for a woman on her wedding day, or just before, or just after it // comment by Liv Bliss: True in general, but my mother-in-law (southern US) called me her son's "bride" for decades after our wedding day. I found it endearing.; a woman about to be married, or newly married • The bride wore a white dress)