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Definition: Bridesmaid |
BridesmaidNoun1. A woman who attends the bride at a wedding. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "bridesmaid" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1838. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Married attendants, and frequently those who are older, are known as maids of honor.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Bridesmaid."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Marriage | Bridesmaid, bridesman, best man; bride, bridegroom. married man, married woman, married couple; neogamist, Benedict, partner, spouse, mate, yokemate; husband, man, consort, baron; old man, good man; wife of one's bosom; helpmate, rib, better half, gray mare, old woman, old lady, good wife, goodwife. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Bridesmaid |
| English words defined with "bridesmaid": Brideman ♦ Paranymph. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "bridesmaid": Pronubial. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Always a Bridesmaid (1943) Here Comes the Bridesmaid (1928) | |
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Books | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Cornelia Vanderbilt meets her bridesmaid at the station. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "Bridesmaid" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.26% of the time. "Bridesmaid" is used about 115 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 98.26% | 113 | 30,464 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.74% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 115 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "bridesmaid"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | shoqëruese e nuses. (various references) | |
Arabic | صديقة العروسة, الصديقة الأولى للعروسة, إشبينة العروس. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | шаферка (maid of honor, usherette). (various references) | |
Chinese | 女傧相. (various references) | |
Czech | družièka. (various references) | |
Farsi | ندیمه عروس , ساقدوش عروس . (various references) | |
Finnish | morsiusneito. (various references) | |
French | première amie pour la mariée, demoiselle d'honneur. (various references) | |
German | brautjungfer. (various references) | |
Greek | συνοδόσ νύφησ, παράνυμφοσ (best man, maid of honor), παρανυφάκι. (various references) | |
Hebrew | שושבי ת "כל". (various references) | |
Hungarian | nyoszolyólány (maid of honor, maid of honour), menyasszony tanúja (maid of honor). (various references) | |
Indonesian | pengapit pengantin. (various references) | |
Italian | damigella d'onore. (various references) | |
Korean | 부 "러리. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | idesmaidbray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | dama de honra (maid of honor, maid of honour). (various references) | |
Romanian | domnişoarã de onoare. (various references) | |
Russian | подружка невесты. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | deveruša (maid of honor). (various references) | |
Spanish | dama de honor (lady in waiting, maid of honour, matron of honour). (various references) | |
Swedish | brudtärna (maid of honor). (various references) | |
Thai | เพื่อนเจ้าสาว (maid of honor). (various references) | |
Turkish | nedime (Abigail, lady in waiting, maid of honor, matron of honor), geline eşlik eden kız. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | дружка. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | cô phù dâu. (various references) | |
Welsh | morwyn briodas. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "bridesmaid": bridesmaids. (additional references) | |
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"Bridesmaid" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Brodseam. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "bridesmaid" (pronounced brī"dzmā'd) |
| 3 | -m ā' d | mermaid. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-d-d-e-i-i-m-r-s" | |
-2 letters: diamides, disarmed, semiarid. | |
-3 letters: abiders, admired, admires, ambries, baddies, bidders, biddies, birdied, birdies, braided, braised, dairies, daisied, darbies, diadems, diamide, diaries, madders, midairs, middies, midribs, misread, seabird, sedarim, sidearm, sidebar. | |
-4 letters: abided, abider, abides, adders, admire, aiders, aimers, ambers, amides, ardebs, armies, badder, baddie, barded, bardes, barmie, beards, bedims, bedrid, biased, bidder, biders. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-d-d-e-i-i-m-r-s" | |
+1 letter: bridesmaids. | |
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