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

However, their tune immediately changed after one of the family members asked if their children were invited, and another requested a plus-one. —Ashlyn Robinette, PEOPLE, 17 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

Echoing Vallario, Hoover knew that Burch and Derek Blasberg, the hosts—both of whom are parents—wouldn’t bat an eye at a tiny plus-one. —Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 15 Sep. 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