"bridesmaid" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "coordinate_terms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "bridesman"
    }
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "always a bridesmaid, never a bride"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "junior bridesmaid"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "bride",
        "3": "-s-",
        "4": "maid"
      },
      "expansion": "bride + -s- + maid",
      "name": "af"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "always a bridesmaid, never a bride"
      },
      "expansion": "always a bridesmaid, never a bride",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From bride + -s- + maid. Sports/entertainment sense: in reference to the saying always a bridesmaid, never a bride.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "bridesmaids",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "bridesmaid (plural bridesmaids)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "bridesmaiden"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "bridesmatron"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "english": "the primary bridesmaid",
      "word": "maid of honor"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "english": "the group of women as a whole",
      "word": "bridesmaids"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "52 45 4",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "42 46 12",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms interfixed with -s-",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "53 12 35",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Female people",
          "orig": "en:Female people",
          "parents": [
            "Female",
            "People",
            "Gender",
            "Human",
            "Biology",
            "Psychology",
            "Sociology",
            "All topics",
            "Sciences",
            "Social sciences",
            "Fundamental",
            "Society"
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          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "52 27 21",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Marriage",
          "orig": "en:Marriage",
          "parents": [
            "Culture",
            "Family",
            "Society",
            "People",
            "All topics",
            "Human",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "I'd love to be your bridesmaid at the wedding.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1994, Richard Curtis, Four Weddings and a Funeral, spoken by Lydia (Sophie Thompson)",
          "text": "I was promised sex. Everybody said it. You'll be a bridesmaid, you'll get sex, you'll be fighting 'em off. But not so much as a tongue in sight.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A woman who attends a bride during her wedding ceremony, as part of the main wedding party."
      ],
      "id": "en-bridesmaid-en-noun-X4o-aWwk",
      "links": [
        [
          "bride",
          "bride"
        ],
        [
          "wedding",
          "wedding"
        ],
        [
          "wedding party",
          "wedding party"
        ]
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "85 15",
          "code": "af",
          "lang": "Afrikaans",
          "sense": "woman who attends the bride at a wedding ceremony",
          "word": "strooimeisie"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "85 15",
          "code": "hy",
          "lang": "Armenian",
          "roman": "harsnakʿuyr",
          "sense": "woman who attends the bride at a wedding ceremony",
          "word": "հարսնաքույր"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "85 15",
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "šaferka",
          "sense": "woman who attends the bride at a wedding ceremony",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "шаферка"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "85 15",
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "bànniáng",
          "sense": "woman who attends the bride at a wedding ceremony",
          "word": "伴娘"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "85 15",
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "woman who attends the bride at a wedding ceremony",
          "word": "女儐相"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "85 15",
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "nǚbīnxiàng",
          "sense": "woman who attends the bride at a wedding ceremony",
          "word": "女傧相"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "85 15",
          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "woman who attends the bride at a wedding ceremony",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "družička"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "85 15",
          "code": "da",
          "lang": "Danish",
          "sense": "woman who attends the bride at a wedding ceremony",
          "tags": [
            "common-gender"
          ],
          "word": "brudepige"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "85 15",
          "code": "eo",
          "lang": "Esperanto",
          "sense": "woman who attends the bride at a wedding ceremony",
          "word": "fianĉamikino"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "85 15",
          "code": "fo",
          "lang": "Faroese",
          "sense": "woman who attends the bride at a wedding ceremony",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "brúðkona"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "85 15",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "woman who attends the bride at a wedding ceremony",
          "word": "morsiusneito"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "85 15",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "woman who attends the bride at a wedding ceremony",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "demoiselle d’honneur"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "85 15",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "woman who attends the bride at a wedding ceremony",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "Brautjungfer"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "85 15",
          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "paránymfos",
          "sense": "woman who attends the bride at a wedding ceremony",
          "tags": [
            "common-gender"
          ],
          "word": "παράνυμφος"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "85 15",
          "code": "hil",
          "lang": "Hiligaynon",
          "sense": "woman who attends the bride at a wedding ceremony",
          "word": "abay"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "85 15",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "woman who attends the bride at a wedding ceremony",
          "word": "koszorúslány"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "85 15",
          "code": "ga",
          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "woman who attends the bride at a wedding ceremony",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "cailín coimhdeachta"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "85 15",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "woman who attends the bride at a wedding ceremony",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "damigella d'onore"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "85 15",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "buraizumeido",
          "sense": "woman who attends the bride at a wedding ceremony",
          "word": "ブライズメイド"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "85 15",
          "alt": "はなよめかいぞえにん",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "hanayome kaizoenin",
          "sense": "woman who attends the bride at a wedding ceremony",
          "word": "花嫁介添人"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "85 15",
          "alt": "かいぞえにん",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "kaizoenin",
          "sense": "woman who attends the bride at a wedding ceremony",
          "word": "介添人"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "85 15",
          "code": "kmr",
          "lang": "Northern Kurdish",
          "sense": "woman who attends the bride at a wedding ceremony",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "berbûk"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "85 15",
          "code": "mk",
          "lang": "Macedonian",
          "roman": "deverica",
          "sense": "woman who attends the bride at a wedding ceremony",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "деверица"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "85 15",
          "code": "nrf",
          "lang": "Norman",
          "sense": "woman who attends the bride at a wedding ceremony",
          "tags": [
            "Jersey",
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "fil'ye d'honneu"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "85 15",
          "code": "nb",
          "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
          "sense": "woman who attends the bride at a wedding ceremony",
          "tags": [
            "feminine",
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "brudepike"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "85 15",
          "code": "nb",
          "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
          "sense": "woman who attends the bride at a wedding ceremony",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "forlover"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "85 15",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "woman who attends the bride at a wedding ceremony",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "druhna"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "85 15",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "woman who attends the bride at a wedding ceremony",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "dama de honra"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "85 15",
          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "woman who attends the bride at a wedding ceremony",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "domnișoară de onoare"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "85 15",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "podrúžka nevésty",
          "sense": "woman who attends the bride at a wedding ceremony",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "подру́жка неве́сты"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "85 15",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "podrúžka",
          "sense": "woman who attends the bride at a wedding ceremony",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "подру́жка"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "85 15",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "drúžka",
          "sense": "woman who attends the bride at a wedding ceremony",
          "tags": [
            "feminine",
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "дру́жка"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "85 15",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "svidételʹnica",
          "sense": "woman who attends the bride at a wedding ceremony",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "свиде́тельница"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "85 15",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "podnevéstnica",
          "sense": "woman who attends the bride at a wedding ceremony",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "подневе́стница"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "85 15",
          "code": "gd",
          "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
          "sense": "woman who attends the bride at a wedding ceremony",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "maighdean-phòsaidh"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "85 15",
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "woman who attends the bride at a wedding ceremony",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "deveruša"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "85 15",
          "code": "sk",
          "lang": "Slovak",
          "sense": "woman who attends the bride at a wedding ceremony",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "družica"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "85 15",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "woman who attends the bride at a wedding ceremony",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "dama de honor"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "85 15",
          "code": "su",
          "lang": "Sundanese",
          "roman": "pagarayu",
          "sense": "woman who attends the bride at a wedding ceremony",
          "word": "ᮕᮌᮛᮚᮥ"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "85 15",
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "woman who attends the bride at a wedding ceremony",
          "tags": [
            "common-gender"
          ],
          "word": "brudtärna"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "85 15",
          "code": "tl",
          "lang": "Tagalog",
          "sense": "woman who attends the bride at a wedding ceremony",
          "word": "dama sa kasal"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "85 15",
          "code": "tl",
          "lang": "Tagalog",
          "sense": "woman who attends the bride at a wedding ceremony",
          "word": "abay sa kasal"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "85 15",
          "code": "te",
          "lang": "Telugu",
          "roman": "tōḍipeṇḍlikūturu",
          "sense": "woman who attends the bride at a wedding ceremony",
          "word": "తోడిపెండ్లికూతురు"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "85 15",
          "code": "th",
          "lang": "Thai",
          "sense": "woman who attends the bride at a wedding ceremony",
          "word": "เพื่อนเจ้าสาว"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "85 15",
          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "woman who attends the bride at a wedding ceremony",
          "word": "nedime"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "85 15",
          "code": "vi",
          "lang": "Vietnamese",
          "sense": "woman who attends the bride at a wedding ceremony",
          "word": "phù dâu"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Sports",
          "orig": "en:Sports",
          "parents": [
            "Human activity",
            "Human behaviour",
            "Human",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
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          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
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            "Entry maintenance"
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        },
        {
          "_dis": "42 46 12",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms interfixed with -s-",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2023, Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood, page 319",
          "text": "He had taken her for a dogsbody, a beta fish, a bridesmaid, a ride-along; he had looked right past her, as likely many people did.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A person or team that perennially finishes well, but never first."
      ],
      "id": "en-bridesmaid-en-noun-Qdtixg05",
      "links": [
        [
          "sports",
          "sports"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "social dynamics",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(sports, entertainment, social dynamics) A person or team that perennially finishes well, but never first."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "entertainment",
        "hobbies",
        "lifestyle",
        "sports"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "3 97",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "person or team that perennially finishes well, but never first",
          "word": "ikuinen kakkonen"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈbɹaɪdzˌmeɪd/"
    },
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      "tags": [
        "Southern-England"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (Southern England)"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "tags": [
        "archaic"
      ],
      "word": "bridemaid"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "bride's maid"
    }
  ],
  "word": "bridesmaid"
}

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  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "bride",
        "3": "-s-",
        "4": "maid"
      },
      "expansion": "bride + -s- + maid",
      "name": "af"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "always a bridesmaid, never a bride"
      },
      "expansion": "always a bridesmaid, never a bride",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From bride + -s- + maid. Sports/entertainment sense: in reference to the saying always a bridesmaid, never a bride.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "bridesmaids",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bridesmaiding",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bridesmaided",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bridesmaided",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "bridesmaid (third-person singular simple present bridesmaids, present participle bridesmaiding, simple past and past participle bridesmaided)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
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        {
          "_dis": "42 46 12",
          "kind": "other",
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          "parents": [],
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        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1858, Anthony Trollope, Doctor Thorne, volume 1, page 83",
          "text": "\"No, Trichy; I won't be Augusta's bridesmaid; I'll bide my time for bridesmaiding.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1915, George Jean Nathan, Henry Louis Mencken, The smart set: a magazine of cleverness, volume 45, page 204",
          "text": "And what's this? that isn't Herbie Frost with you in the canoe ; why he was best man when I bridesmaided Corinne.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1989, Kevin Killian, Shy, page 233",
          "text": "\"It's in my Data-fax, right here! December Bride: and I'm supposed to bridesmaid!\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, Siri Agrell, Bad Bridesmaid: True Tales of Bachelorette Brawls and Taffeta Tantrums, page 150",
          "text": "After ten years of friendship and just six months of lackluster bridesmaiding, the women did not even get an invitation to the wedding.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Mark Townsend, Jesus Outside the Box: Twelve Spiritual Tales of the Unexpected, page 308",
          "text": "Still they bridesmaided for her.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To act as a bridesmaid for; to attend a bride during her wedding ceremony."
      ],
      "id": "en-bridesmaid-en-verb-YG8xAjvh",
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "act as a bridesmaid (for)",
          "word": "toimia morsiusneitona"
        },
        {
          "code": "ga",
          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "act as a bridesmaid (for)",
          "word": "seas le"
        },
        {
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "act as a bridesmaid (for)",
          "word": "vara brudtärna"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈbɹaɪdzˌmeɪd/"
    },
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      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-bridesmaid.wav",
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      "tags": [
        "Southern-England"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (Southern England)"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "tags": [
        "archaic"
      ],
      "word": "bridemaid"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "bride's maid"
    }
  ],
  "word": "bridesmaid"
}

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  "categories": [
    "English 2-syllable words",
    "English compound terms",
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms interfixed with -s-",
    "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "English terms with audio links",
    "English verbs",
    "en:Female people",
    "en:Marriage"
  ],
  "coordinate_terms": [
    {
      "word": "bridesman"
    }
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "always a bridesmaid, never a bride"
    },
    {
      "word": "junior bridesmaid"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "bride",
        "3": "-s-",
        "4": "maid"
      },
      "expansion": "bride + -s- + maid",
      "name": "af"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "always a bridesmaid, never a bride"
      },
      "expansion": "always a bridesmaid, never a bride",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From bride + -s- + maid. Sports/entertainment sense: in reference to the saying always a bridesmaid, never a bride.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "bridesmaids",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "bridesmaid (plural bridesmaids)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "bridesmaiden"
    },
    {
      "word": "bridesmatron"
    },
    {
      "english": "the primary bridesmaid",
      "word": "maid of honor"
    },
    {
      "english": "the group of women as a whole",
      "word": "bridesmaids"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "I'd love to be your bridesmaid at the wedding.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1994, Richard Curtis, Four Weddings and a Funeral, spoken by Lydia (Sophie Thompson)",
          "text": "I was promised sex. Everybody said it. You'll be a bridesmaid, you'll get sex, you'll be fighting 'em off. But not so much as a tongue in sight.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A woman who attends a bride during her wedding ceremony, as part of the main wedding party."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "bride",
          "bride"
        ],
        [
          "wedding",
          "wedding"
        ],
        [
          "wedding party",
          "wedding party"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "en:Sports"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2023, Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood, page 319",
          "text": "He had taken her for a dogsbody, a beta fish, a bridesmaid, a ride-along; he had looked right past her, as likely many people did.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A person or team that perennially finishes well, but never first."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "sports",
          "sports"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "social dynamics",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(sports, entertainment, social dynamics) A person or team that perennially finishes well, but never first."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "entertainment",
        "hobbies",
        "lifestyle",
        "sports"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈbɹaɪdzˌmeɪd/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-bridesmaid.wav",
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      "tags": [
        "Southern-England"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (Southern England)"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "archaic"
      ],
      "word": "bridemaid"
    },
    {
      "word": "bride's maid"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "af",
      "lang": "Afrikaans",
      "sense": "woman who attends the bride at a wedding ceremony",
      "word": "strooimeisie"
    },
    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "harsnakʿuyr",
      "sense": "woman who attends the bride at a wedding ceremony",
      "word": "հարսնաքույր"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "šaferka",
      "sense": "woman who attends the bride at a wedding ceremony",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "шаферка"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "bànniáng",
      "sense": "woman who attends the bride at a wedding ceremony",
      "word": "伴娘"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "woman who attends the bride at a wedding ceremony",
      "word": "女儐相"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "nǚbīnxiàng",
      "sense": "woman who attends the bride at a wedding ceremony",
      "word": "女傧相"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "woman who attends the bride at a wedding ceremony",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "družička"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "woman who attends the bride at a wedding ceremony",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "brudepige"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "woman who attends the bride at a wedding ceremony",
      "word": "fianĉamikino"
    },
    {
      "code": "fo",
      "lang": "Faroese",
      "sense": "woman who attends the bride at a wedding ceremony",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "brúðkona"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "woman who attends the bride at a wedding ceremony",
      "word": "morsiusneito"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "woman who attends the bride at a wedding ceremony",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "demoiselle d’honneur"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "woman who attends the bride at a wedding ceremony",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Brautjungfer"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "paránymfos",
      "sense": "woman who attends the bride at a wedding ceremony",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "παράνυμφος"
    },
    {
      "code": "hil",
      "lang": "Hiligaynon",
      "sense": "woman who attends the bride at a wedding ceremony",
      "word": "abay"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "woman who attends the bride at a wedding ceremony",
      "word": "koszorúslány"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "woman who attends the bride at a wedding ceremony",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "cailín coimhdeachta"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "woman who attends the bride at a wedding ceremony",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "damigella d'onore"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "buraizumeido",
      "sense": "woman who attends the bride at a wedding ceremony",
      "word": "ブライズメイド"
    },
    {
      "alt": "はなよめかいぞえにん",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "hanayome kaizoenin",
      "sense": "woman who attends the bride at a wedding ceremony",
      "word": "花嫁介添人"
    },
    {
      "alt": "かいぞえにん",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "kaizoenin",
      "sense": "woman who attends the bride at a wedding ceremony",
      "word": "介添人"
    },
    {
      "code": "kmr",
      "lang": "Northern Kurdish",
      "sense": "woman who attends the bride at a wedding ceremony",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "berbûk"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "deverica",
      "sense": "woman who attends the bride at a wedding ceremony",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "деверица"
    },
    {
      "code": "nrf",
      "lang": "Norman",
      "sense": "woman who attends the bride at a wedding ceremony",
      "tags": [
        "Jersey",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "fil'ye d'honneu"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "woman who attends the bride at a wedding ceremony",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "brudepike"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "woman who attends the bride at a wedding ceremony",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "forlover"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "woman who attends the bride at a wedding ceremony",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "druhna"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "woman who attends the bride at a wedding ceremony",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "dama de honra"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "woman who attends the bride at a wedding ceremony",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "domnișoară de onoare"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "podrúžka nevésty",
      "sense": "woman who attends the bride at a wedding ceremony",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "подру́жка неве́сты"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "podrúžka",
      "sense": "woman who attends the bride at a wedding ceremony",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "подру́жка"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "drúžka",
      "sense": "woman who attends the bride at a wedding ceremony",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "дру́жка"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "svidételʹnica",
      "sense": "woman who attends the bride at a wedding ceremony",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "свиде́тельница"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "podnevéstnica",
      "sense": "woman who attends the bride at a wedding ceremony",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "подневе́стница"
    },
    {
      "code": "gd",
      "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
      "sense": "woman who attends the bride at a wedding ceremony",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "maighdean-phòsaidh"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "woman who attends the bride at a wedding ceremony",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "deveruša"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "woman who attends the bride at a wedding ceremony",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "družica"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "woman who attends the bride at a wedding ceremony",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "dama de honor"
    },
    {
      "code": "su",
      "lang": "Sundanese",
      "roman": "pagarayu",
      "sense": "woman who attends the bride at a wedding ceremony",
      "word": "ᮕᮌᮛᮚᮥ"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "woman who attends the bride at a wedding ceremony",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "brudtärna"
    },
    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "woman who attends the bride at a wedding ceremony",
      "word": "dama sa kasal"
    },
    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "woman who attends the bride at a wedding ceremony",
      "word": "abay sa kasal"
    },
    {
      "code": "te",
      "lang": "Telugu",
      "roman": "tōḍipeṇḍlikūturu",
      "sense": "woman who attends the bride at a wedding ceremony",
      "word": "తోడిపెండ్లికూతురు"
    },
    {
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "sense": "woman who attends the bride at a wedding ceremony",
      "word": "เพื่อนเจ้าสาว"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "woman who attends the bride at a wedding ceremony",
      "word": "nedime"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "woman who attends the bride at a wedding ceremony",
      "word": "phù dâu"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "person or team that perennially finishes well, but never first",
      "word": "ikuinen kakkonen"
    }
  ],
  "word": "bridesmaid"
}

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    "English 2-syllable words",
    "English compound terms",
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms interfixed with -s-",
    "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "English terms with audio links",
    "English verbs",
    "en:Female people",
    "en:Marriage"
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      "args": {
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        "2": "bride",
        "3": "-s-",
        "4": "maid"
      },
      "expansion": "bride + -s- + maid",
      "name": "af"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "always a bridesmaid, never a bride"
      },
      "expansion": "always a bridesmaid, never a bride",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From bride + -s- + maid. Sports/entertainment sense: in reference to the saying always a bridesmaid, never a bride.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "bridesmaids",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bridesmaiding",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bridesmaided",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bridesmaided",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {},
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1858, Anthony Trollope, Doctor Thorne, volume 1, page 83",
          "text": "\"No, Trichy; I won't be Augusta's bridesmaid; I'll bide my time for bridesmaiding.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1915, George Jean Nathan, Henry Louis Mencken, The smart set: a magazine of cleverness, volume 45, page 204",
          "text": "And what's this? that isn't Herbie Frost with you in the canoe ; why he was best man when I bridesmaided Corinne.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1989, Kevin Killian, Shy, page 233",
          "text": "\"It's in my Data-fax, right here! December Bride: and I'm supposed to bridesmaid!\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, Siri Agrell, Bad Bridesmaid: True Tales of Bachelorette Brawls and Taffeta Tantrums, page 150",
          "text": "After ten years of friendship and just six months of lackluster bridesmaiding, the women did not even get an invitation to the wedding.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Mark Townsend, Jesus Outside the Box: Twelve Spiritual Tales of the Unexpected, page 308",
          "text": "Still they bridesmaided for her.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To act as a bridesmaid for; to attend a bride during her wedding ceremony."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈbɹaɪdzˌmeɪd/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-bridesmaid.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/e2/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-bridesmaid.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-bridesmaid.wav.mp3",
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      "tags": [
        "Southern-England"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (Southern England)"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "archaic"
      ],
      "word": "bridemaid"
    },
    {
      "word": "bride's maid"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "act as a bridesmaid (for)",
      "word": "toimia morsiusneitona"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "act as a bridesmaid (for)",
      "word": "seas le"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "act as a bridesmaid (for)",
      "word": "vara brudtärna"
    }
  ],
  "word": "bridesmaid"
}