plus one
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.94 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "I'm on the guestlist baby / Be my plus one"
- "If the invitation doesn't say Plus One, then the guest or their representative or the guest pretending to be their own representative if they don't have one will call up to check if they can bring a Plus One. Basically, a Plus One is a guest's guest."
- "By then Kevin Pietersen may have been named as winner of two categories at the ICC Awards Night, which will receive more attention on Tuesday if, as expected, he is accompanied by Caprice, the model, who was due to arrive as his plus one today."
- "No, you ain't worth guest list / Plus one of all them girls you kiss"
- "It was billed as a double act but everyone knew it wasn’t going to be that way. Keir [Starmer] was there purely as The Donald’s plus one."
Etymology
From guest lists reading “John Doe + 1” meaning “John Doe plus one (unspecified) guest”. Later generalized to invitations, particularly as an alternative to explicitly inviting both members of a couple: the invitee is welcome to bring a guest, be it a spouse, companion, date, friend, etc.