Word Meanings - BRIDESMAID - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A female friend who attends on a bride at her wedding.

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• FRIENDLINESS
  The condition or quality of being friendly. Sir P. Sidney.
• FEMALE
  A plant which produces only that kind of reproductive organs which are capable of developing into fruit after impregnation or fertilization; a pistillate plant. (more info) 1. An individual of the sex which conceives and brings forth young, or
• FRIENDED
  1. Having friends; 2. Iuclined to love; well-disposed. Shak.
• FRIENDSHIP
  1. The state of being friends; friendly relation, or attachment, to a person, or between persons; affection arising from mutual esteem and good will; friendliness; amity; good will. There is little friendship in the world. Bacon. There can be no
• BRIDEGROOM
  A man newly married, or just about to be married. (more info) br, D. bruidegom, bruigom, OHG. pr, MHG. briutegome, G. bräutigam); AS. br bride + guma man, akin to Goth. guma, Icel. gumi, OHG. gomo, L. homo; the insertion of r being caused
• FRIENDLY
  1. Having the temper and disposition of a friend; disposed to promote the good of another; kind; favorable. 2. Appropriate to, or implying, friendship; befitting friends; amicable. In friendly relations with his moderate opponents. Macaulay. 3.
• FRIEND
  freón, freógan, to love; akin to D. vriend friend, OS. friund friend, friohan to love, OHG. friunt friend, G. freund, Icel. frændi kinsman, Sw. frände. Goth. frij friend, frij to love. sq. root83. See Free, 1. One who entertains for another
• BRIDESMAN
  A male friend who attends upon a bridegroom and bride at their marriage; the "best man." Sir W. Scott.
• WEDDAHS
  See VEDDAHS
• WEDDING
  Nuptial ceremony; nuptial festivities; marriage; nuptials. Simple and brief was the wedding, as that of Ruth and of Boaz. Longfellow. Note: Certain anniversaries of an unbroken marriage have received fanciful, and more or less appropriate, names.
• FEMALE FERN
  a common species of fern with large decompound fronds , growing in many countries; lady fern. Note: The names male fern and female fern were anciently given to two common ferns; but it is now understood that neither has any sexual character. Syn.
• FRIENDING
  Friendliness. Shak.
• BRIDE
  OFries. breid, OSax. br, D. bruid, OHG. pr, br, G. braut, Icel. br, Sw. & Dan. brud, Goth. br33s; cf. Armor. pried spouse, W. priawd a 1. A woman newly married, or about to be married. Has by his own experience tried How much the wife is dearer
• WEDDED
  1. Joined in wedlock; married. Let wwedded dame. Pope. 2. Of or pertaining to wedlock, or marriage. "Wedded love." Milton.
• BRIDESTAKE
  A stake or post set in the ground, for guests at a wedding to dance round. Divide the broad bridecake Round about the bridestake. B. Jonson.
• BRIDESMAID
  A female friend who attends on a bride at her wedding.
• BRIDEMAID; BRIDEMAN
  See BRIDESMAN
• BRIDEBED
  The marriage bed.
• BRIDECHAMBER
  The nuptial appartment. Matt. ix. 15.
• BRIDEWELL
  A house of correction for the confinement of disorderly persons; -- so called from a hospital built in 1553 near St. Bride's well, in London, which was subsequently a penal workhouse.
• UNFRIEND
  One not a friend; an enemy. Carlyle.
• BEFRIEND
  To act as a friend to; to favor; to aid, benefit, or countenance. By the darkness befriended. Longfellow.
• BACKFRIEND
  A secret enemy. South.
• UNFRIENDLY
  1. Not friendly; not kind or benevolent; hostile; as, an unfriendly neighbor. 2. Not favorable; not adapted to promote or support any object; as, weather unfriendly to health. -- Un*friend"li*ness, n.