bridesmaid
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- noun
- /ˈbraɪdzˌmeɪd/
- Are you gonna ask me to be a bridesmaid?
- a bridesmaid dress
- wedding bridesmaid
- bride and her bridesmaids
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Watch on YouTubeI'd like to say that the bridesmaids look radiant, but I can't.
- I'd like to say that the bridesmaids look radiant, but I can't.
- So this subject line is should bridesmaids pay for the bridal shower?
- No, usually the head table is bridesmaids and groomsmen.
- The bride and her bridesmaids, though, were a different ball game.
- She's asked me to be her bridesmaid, maid of honor, matron of honor.
- She chose someone else and made you a bridesmaid.
- You know, personally, my, I don't ever want to be a bridesmaid again.
- I'm like, I've already thought about how I'm going to ask everyone to be my maids of honor and my bridesmaids and all my things.
- How many bridesmaids were in my second?
Examples
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The bridesmaid's dresses are really pretty.
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"Danny and I are getting married, and we want you to be the bridesmaid," she said.
Fiction book (1999) -
And now here they come with their bridesmaid dresses.
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This is a bridesmaid dress all the bridesmaids can have.
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In fact, she was a bridesmaid in his wedding to this woman, his wife, Carly.
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The bride and her bridesmaids sit on the edge of the bed.
Academic text (1998) -
I'm supposed to come here to be measured for a bridesmaid's dress.
Fiction book (2000) -
I'd come shopping with you, but the bridesmaids are getting together at eleven a.m. for a luncheon.
Fiction book (1993) -
Will you be my bridesmaid on my special day?
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She bought a beautiful dress for her role as a bridesmaid.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Bridesmaid combines bride and maid, and long ago maid meant a 'young' or 'unmarried' woman, like maiden. So a bridesmaid is literally a young woman who helps the bride at her wedding.