bridesmaid

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Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈbɹaɪdzˌmeɪd/

Noun

bridesmaid (plural bridesmaids)

1. A woman who attends a bride during her wedding ceremony, as part of the main wedding party.

   I'd love to be your bridesmaid.

2. (sports, entertainment) A person or team who perennially finishes well, but never first.

Related terms

• bridesmatron

Translations

• French: demoiselle d'honneur
• German: Brautjungfer
• Italian: damigella d'onore
• Portuguese: dama de honra
• Russian: подру́жка неве́сты
• Spanish: dama de honor

Verb

bridesmaid (bridesmaids, present participle bridesmaiding; past and past participle bridesmaided)

1. To act as a bridesmaid for; to attend a bride during her wedding ceremony.
   • 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.

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