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# bridesmaid

«bridesmaid» in Mova's school dictionary: **a girl or woman who helps the bride on her wedding day…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a bridesmaid, bridesmaids)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A bridesmaid is a girl or woman who helps the bride on her wedding day and walks with her at the ceremony. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bridesmaid/#m1)

2) (idiom) «Always the bridesmaid, never the bride» means always nearly winning but never quite winning. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bridesmaid/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

A word of weddings and family life: a girl may be a bridesmaid at her aunt's or cousin's wedding, wearing a special dress and carrying flowers. The main one is the chief bridesmaid or maid of honour; a little one is a flower girl. Phrases: «chief bridesmaid», «maid of honour», «bridesmaid dress».

### examples

- I was a bridesmaid at my aunt's wedding. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bridesmaid/#x1)
- The bridesmaids wore pale blue dresses. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bridesmaid/#x2)
- My sister is the chief bridesmaid. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bridesmaid/#x3)
- The little bridesmaid scattered petals up the aisle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bridesmaid/#x4)
- Bridesmaids help the bride get ready on the big day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bridesmaid/#x5)
- Our team was always the bridesmaid, never the bride, until this year's final. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bridesmaid/#x6)

### note

Countable: bridesmaids. One word: bride + s + maid. The male helper of the groom is the «best man»; boys may be «pageboys» (UK) or «ring bearers». «Maid of honour» is the head bridesmaid.

### In the corpora

- [Bridesmaids are friends or relatives who help the bride and walk with her, and children can be flower girls or page boys.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/13-dates-engagements-and-weddings/13/)
- [At Mum's wedding Sky is a bridesmaid in a lilac dress.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/517-the-parent-who-left-and-a-new-partner/33/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «bridesmaid» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bridesmaid/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.