plus-one

noun

ˈpləs-ˈwən 

: a person who accompanies an invited guest to an event or gathering at which guests are allowed to bring a companion or partner

My husband twice received handsome engraved invitations to presidential dinners. For those events and many others, I was the perpetual plus-one.

—Ana Marie Cox

Examples of plus-one in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Even with a plus-one edge in turnover margin and three points off it, the Gophers didn’t give fans back home much reason to see how the game finished on TV. —Andy Greder, Twin Cities, 15 Nov. 2025

While King may be Lakshmi’s plus-one at some events, the celebrity chef had a different person by her side for her Soma venture. —Sabrina Weiss, PEOPLE, 28 Oct. 2025

Many were plus-ones—women on various arms, posing and temporary, there for generalized love of art or love for some particular and passing artist. —Literary Hub, 9 Oct. 2025

The family sent out an electronic invitation and asked for the name of my plus-one. —Jeanne Phillips, Mercury News, 7 Oct. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1977, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for plus-one

• begun
• grandson
• gudrun
• handgun
• homespun
• outdone
• outrun
• pashtun
• redone
• rerun
• shotgun
• someone