bridesmaid
See also: bride's maid
English
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Etymology
From bride + -s- + maid. Sports/entertainment sense: in reference to the saying always a bridesmaid, never a bride.
Pronunciation
Noun
bridesmaid (plural bridesmaids)
- A woman who attends a bride during her wedding ceremony, as part of the main wedding party.
- I'd love to be your bridesmaid.
- (sports, entertainment) A person or team that perennially finishes well, but never first.
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Translations
woman who attends the bride at a wedding ceremony
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See also
- maid of honor the primary bridesmaid
- bridesmaids the group of women as a whole
Verb
bridesmaid (third-person singular simple present bridesmaids, present participle bridesmaiding, simple past and past participle bridesmaided)
- To act as a bridesmaid for; to attend a bride during her wedding ceremony.
- 1858, Anthony Trollope, Doctor Thorne[1], volume 1, page 83:
- "No, Trichy; I won't be Augusta's bridesmaid; I'll bide my time for bridesmaiding."
- 1915, George Jean Nathan, Henry Louis Mencken, The smart set: a magazine of cleverness, Volume 45, page 204,
- And what's this? that isn't Herbie Frost with you in the canoe ; why he was best man when I bridesmaided Corinne.
- 1989, Kevin Killian, Shy[2], page 233:
- "It's in my Data-fax, right here! December Bride: and I'm supposed to bridesmaid!"
- 2007, Siri Agrell, Bad Bridesmaid: True Tales of Bachelorette Brawls and Taffeta Tantrums[3], page 150:
- After ten years of friendship and just six months of lackluster bridesmaiding, the women did not even get an invitation to the wedding.
- 2010, Mark Townsend, Jesus Outside the Box: Twelve Spiritual Tales of the Unexpected[4], page 308:
- Still they bridesmaided for her.
Translations
to act as a bridesmaid (for)
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