bridesmaid
/ˈbɹaɪdzˌmeɪd/
bridesmaid noun: a woman who attends a bride during her wedding ceremony, as part of the main wedding party.
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 at the wedding.
- I was promised sex. Everybody said it. You'll be a bridesmaid, you'll get sex, you'll be fighting 'em off. But not so much as a tongue in sight.1994, Richard Curtis, Four Weddings and a Funeral, spoken by Lydia (Sophie Thompson)
- A person or team that perennially finishes well, but never first.
- He had taken her for a dogsbody, a beta fish, a bridesmaid, a ride-along; he had looked right past her, as likely many people did.2023, Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood, page 319
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.
- "No, Trichy; I won't be Augusta's bridesmaid; I'll bide my time for bridesmaiding."1858, Anthony Trollope, Doctor Thorne, volume 1, page 83
- And what's this? that isn't Herbie Frost with you in the canoe ; why he was best man when I bridesmaided Corinne.1915, George Jean Nathan, Henry Louis Mencken, The smart set: a magazine of cleverness, volume 45, page 204
bridesmaid meaning in Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada and Tagalog
bridesmaid in Telugu
- woman who attends the bride at a wedding ceremony
- తోడిపెండ్లికూతురు tōḍipeṇḍlikūturu
bridesmaid in Malayalam
- വധുവിൻറെ തോഴി
bridesmaid in Kannada
- ವಧೂಸಖಿ, ವಧುವಿನ ಸಖಿ, ಮದುಮಗಳ ಗೆಳತಿ
bridesmaid in Tagalog
- woman who attends the bride at a wedding ceremony
- dama sa kasal, abay sa kasal
More languagesFewer languages
- bridesmaid in Thai
- เพื่อนเจ้าสาว
- bridesmaid in Vietnamese
- phù dâu
- bridesmaid in Myanmar
- သတို့သမီးအရံ sa.tui.sa.mi:a.ram
Examples of bridesmaid in a sentence
- December Bride: and I'm supposed to bridesmaid!"1989, Kevin Killian, Shy, page 233:
- After ten years of friendship and just six months of lackluster bridesmaiding, the women did not even get an invitation to the wedding.2007, Siri Agrell, Bad Bridesmaid: True Tales of Bachelorette Brawls and Taffeta Tantrums, page 150:
Forms of bridesmaid
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | bridesmaids |
| alternative form | bride's maid |
| alternative form (archaic) | bridemaid |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | bridesmaids |
| present participle | bridesmaiding |
| past participle | bridesmaided |
| past | bridesmaided |
Origin of bridesmaid
From bride + -s- + maid. In the sports and entertainment sense: in reference to the saying always a bridesmaid, never a bride.
Words formed from bridesmaid
Questions about bridesmaid
- What does bridesmaid mean?
- Bridesmaid means a woman who attends a bride during her wedding ceremony, as part of the main wedding party.
- What is bridesmaid in Telugu?
- Bridesmaid in Telugu is తోడిపెండ్లికూతురు (tōḍipeṇḍlikūturu). See Bridesmaid meaning in Telugu.
- How do you use bridesmaid in a sentence?
- December Bride: and I'm supposed to bridesmaid!"
- What part of speech is bridesmaid?
- Bridesmaid can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce bridesmaid?
- Bridesmaid is pronounced /ˈbɹaɪdzˌmeɪd/.
- What is the plural of bridesmaid?
- The plural of bridesmaid is bridesmaids.
Words near bridesmaid in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: bridesmaid (page history and authors); bridesmaid (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); bridesmaid (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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