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  1. noun A person employed to take care of horses or a stable.
  2. noun A bridegroom.
  3. noun One of several officers in an English royal household.
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  • That great giant of a groom was there again, the bald man who had looked familiar the day before. —  Mary Balogh - Unlikely Duchess
  • Yes, the groom will be there, and he will have a cloak for you, and papers. —  F ;SF; - vol 091 issue 04-05 - October-November 1996
  • But this groom is an Angel, an angel with deeper convictions than most, and this bride is a human whose life has been almost destroyed by the inaction, and action, of Angels. —  F ;SF; - vol 091 issue 03 - September 1996
  • It's scandalous to many, but the mamtu'ah isn't Moslem, she wears a crown instead of a veil, and her groom is already spoken of in outraged terms by most other members of the trans-Martian Islamic clergy. —  Asimov'sSF,Dec2003
  • Parents of the groom are the late R.D. and Bobbie McDuff.
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butler ·  footman ·  coachman ·  porter ·  valet ·  chauffeur ·  servant ·  maid ·  waiter ·  gardener ·  steward ·  lackey

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groom:   grooming ·  grooms ·  groomed
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Etymologies (4)

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  1. Middle English grom. N., sense 2, short for bridegroom.

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  1. Early modern English also groome, grome; from Middle English grom, grome, a boy, youth, a serving-man, = Middle Dutch grom, a boy (Kilian), = Icelandic grōmr (Jonsson), gromr (Egilsson), a man, a servant (homuncio) (not in Cleasby and Vigfusson); hence, from Teutonic, Old French gromme, gourme, serving-man, a groom (gourme de chambre, a groom of the chamber), later diminutive gromet, later English gromet, q. v.; ulterior origin uncertain. It is commonly supposed that groom, Middle English grome, is the same as goom, Middle English gome, from Anglo-Saxon guma, a man, with intrusive r, as in hoarse, cartridge, partridge, culprit, vagrant, etc. In bridegroom, early modern English bridegrome, the second element is unquestionably for earlier goom, gome, being apparently a conformation to the word groom; but this does not prove the identity of the simple words. Middle English gome means ‘man’ in an elevated sense, not implying subordination (except as it may be that of a soldier to his chief), and is chiefly, in Anglo-Saxon wholly, confined to poetry, while Middle English grome always means ‘boy’ or else ‘man’ as a servant or menial, and is frequent in prose as well as in poetry; moreover, the two words occur in the same piece with these differing senses. Groom is therefore to be taken as an independent word.
  2. from groom, n., 3.
  3. In this use only modern, and taken from bridegroom.
 

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