Word Meanings - BRIDESMAN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A male friend who attends upon a bridegroom and bride at their marriage; the "best man." Sir W. Scott.

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• FRIENDLINESS
  The condition or quality of being friendly. Sir P. Sidney.
• 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
• SCOTTICIZE
  To cause to become like the Scotch; to make Scottish.
• MARRIAGEABILITY
  The quality or state of being marriageable.
• BRIDESMAN
  A male friend who attends upon a bridegroom and bride at their marriage; the "best man." Sir W. Scott.
• MARRIAGE
  1. The act of marrying, or the state of being married; legal union of a man and a woman for life, as husband and wife; wedlock; matrimony. Marriage is honorable in all. Heb. xiii. 4. 2. The marriage vow or contract. Chaucer. 3. A feast made on
• 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
• SCOTTISH
  Of or pertaining to the inhabitants of Scotland, their country, or their language; as, Scottish industry or economy; a Scottish chief; a Scottish dialect.
• 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.
• SCOTTISH TERRIER
  See TERRIER
• 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.
• MASCOT; MASCOTTE
  A person who is supposed to bring good luck to the household to which he or she belongs; anything that brings good luck.