Usually means: Assistant to bride, ceremonial role.
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We found 27 dictionaries that define the word bridesmaid:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. bridesmaid: Merriam-Webster
  2. bridesmaid: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. bridesmaid: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. bridesmaid: Collins English Dictionary
  5. bridesmaid: Vocabulary.com
  6. Bridesmaid, bridesmaid: Wordnik
  7. bridesmaid: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. bridesmaid: Wiktionary
  9. bridesmaid: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. bridesmaid: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. bridesmaid: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Bridesmaid, bridesmaid: Dictionary.com
  13. bridesmaid: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Bridesmaid (disambiguation), Bridesmaid, The Bridesmaid (film), The Bridesmaid: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Bridesmaid: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. bridesmaid: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. bridesmaid: Rhymezone
  18. bridesmaid: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. bridesmaid: FreeDictionary.org
  20. bridesmaid: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. bridesmaid: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. bridesmaid: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Wedding Paper Divas Glossary (No longer online)
  2. bridesmaid: Idioms

(Note: See bridesmaiding as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A woman who attends a bride during her wedding ceremony, as part of the main wedding party.
noun:  (sports, entertainment, social dynamics) A person or team that perennially finishes well, but never first.
verb:  To act as a bridesmaid for; to attend a bride during her wedding ceremony.

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