Are you into tv shows? If so, you’ve probably watched (or have been watching) Bridgerton. This show is the most popular Netflix tv series at this moment (April 7, 2022) and will certainly continue to be very popular in the future. Considering that you are an English learner and a tv show lover, stick with us to learn English with Bridgerton!
Don’t know the show yet?
If you haven’t watched Bridgerton yet, enjoy the moment to watch its trailer and practice your listening skills.
Here’s the trailer for season 1:
And here’s the trailer for season 2:
Learn English with Bridgerton
Here are some of the most popular words and expressions for you to learn English with Bridgerton.
| Ball | a formal social gathering for dancing |
| Break one’s fast | to eat food for the first time after fasting, or for the first time in the day |
| Chaperone | a person who accompanies and looks after another person or group of people; accompany and look after or supervise |
| Countenance | a person’s face or facial expression |
| Courses | an older and fancier way of referring to a woman’s period |
| Diamond of the first water | a title given to Daphne referring to her extreme beauty |
| Duke | a male holding the highest hereditary title in the British and certain other peerages |
| Facer | a blow to the face |
| High in the instep | arrogant; snobbish; overly proud |
| Leg shackled | a metaphorical expression to say someone is married |
| Modiste | one who makes and sells fashionable dresses and hats for women |
| Promenade | take a leisurely public walk, ride, or drive so as to meet or be seen by others |
| Rake | a fashionable or wealthy man of dissolute or promiscuous habits |
| Regal | of, relating to, or suitable for a king; of notable excellence or magnificence; splendid |
| Season | the period of the year in which the London society dedicated to organizing balls and other social events |
| Snuff | a form of tobacco that is traditionally ingested through the nose |
| Swoon | faint from extreme emotion |
| The dark walk | an expression in reference to the farther places from the entrance to London’s Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens, in which people would engage in promiscuous activities |
| The ton | from the French expression “le bon ton”, which translates to “good manners”, this expression is used in reference to the upper-class London society |
| To be with child | to be pregnant |
| To court | be involved romantically, typically with the intention of marrying |
| To sire an heir | to give birth to an heir |
| Viscount/viscountess | a British nobleman ranking above a baron and below an earl/the wife or widow of a viscount; a woman holding the rank of viscount in her own right |
