maid of honor
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2.8
- noun
- /meɪd əv ˈɒnər/
- US
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dama de honor
- The maid of honor gave a heartfelt speech about her friendship with the bride.
- serve as maid of honor
- duties of the maid of honor
- maid of honor at the wedding
She's asked me to be her bridesmaid, maid of honor, matron of honor.
- She's asked me to be her bridesmaid, maid of honor, matron of honor.
- I was a maid of honor, and I just want to thank Tim and Sylvia.
- So at my friend's wedding, that just passes the the best man in the the maid of honor read the vows.
- Like we knew like, I just maybe I should have had Sophie as a maid of honour.
- 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.
- Well, so I would say, I would say that the the goal in that movie is for her to be her best friend's maid of honor, right?
Examples
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You are to be my maid of honor.
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I want you to be my maid of honor, Trudy.
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Yes, I was maid of honor and you were the best man.
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Oh, wow, great advice from my maid of honor.
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Did you know she asked me to be her maid of honor?
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Would you please be my maid of honor?"
Fiction book (2000) -
As the maid of honor, she looked older than usual.
Fiction book (1990) -
Chantel was her maid of honor at her wedding, but where was the older daughter?
Blog text (4) -
There were four bridesmaids in mint green and myself, maid of honor, in deep forest.
Fiction book (1995) -
As Bonnie's maid of honor, it was my great pleasure to be paired up with him during the wedding ceremony.
Fiction book (2000)
Synonyms
1
3.5
A married woman who is the bride's main helper at a wedding
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
The parts 'maid' (unmarried woman) and 'honor' (a position of recognition) give a clear clue that this denotes a woman who holds a position of honor, so learners can infer a social role. However, the specific conventional wedding role—being the chief attendant to the bride—is a culturally specific, lexicalized appointment that may not be fully predictable from the constituents alone, so it is only partially transparent to a B1 learner.
Etymology
Maid of honor may come from old royal courts where a young woman called a maid stood beside a queen to help her and show respect, a role seen as full of honour. That's why today a maid of honor is the bride's chief female helper, or 'main attendant', at a wedding.