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Definition of Maid of honor
1. Noun. An unmarried woman who attends the bride at a wedding.
Group relationships: Wedding, Wedding Party
Generic synonyms: Attendant, Attender, Tender, Adult Female, Woman
Definition of Maid of honor
1. Noun. The primary woman who attends the bride at a wedding ceremony. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Maid Of Honor
Literary usage of Maid of honor
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Literary Criticism from the Elizabethan Dramatists by John Tucker Murray, David Klein, Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin, William Winter, Rosamond Gilder, Felix Emmanuel Schelling, William Dean Howells, Mary Findlater, Jane Helen Findlater, Allan McAulay, William Randolph Hearst (1908)
"The choice of such a theme as this and of the martyr Dorothea, together with the
denouement of The Maid of Honor, has led to the surmise that Massinger was ..."
2. Elizabethan Drama, 1558-1642: A History of the Drama in England from the by Felix Emmanuel Schelling (1908)
"The choice of such a theme as this and of the martyr Dorothea, together with the
denouement of The Maid of Honor, has led to the surmise that Massinger was ..."
3. Recollections of Seventy Years by John Farrar (1866)
"THE maid of honor. — THE ORPHANS. — THE GENERAL'S LADY. TO any one who has read
the Life of Madame d'Arblay, and remembers how irksome it was to her to fill ..."
4. The goede vrouw of Mana-ha-ta at home and in society, 1609-1760 by John King Van Rensselaer (1898)
"... Troubles—Madame Knight's Journey to New York—Lord and Lady Cornbury—The Court
of Their Excellencies—Miss Van Cort- landt as Maid of Honor—Escapades of ..."
5. The Goede Vrouw of Mana-ha-ta at Home and in Society, 1609-1760 by John King Van Rensselaer (1898)
"... York—Lord and Lady Cornbury—The Court of Their Excellencies—Miss Van Cort-
landt as Maid of Honor—Escapades of the Governor—Mr. Bedlow and His Island. ..."
6. A Biographical History of Lancaster County: Being a History of Early by Alexander Harris (1872)
"... maid of honor to the Queen of England; and the match being clandestine, they
immediately sailed for America. They had three children, William Augustus, ..."
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