girlfriend
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1.0
- noun
- /ˈɡɪrˌlfrɛnd/
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novia
- My girlfriend surprised me with a lovely dinner for our anniversary.
- boyfriends and girlfriends
- former girlfriend
- live-in girlfriend
Well, did you have an ex meet a current girlfriend, Shirley?
- Well, did you have an ex meet a current girlfriend, Shirley?
- Yeah, that was his girlfriend at the time, right?
- Being boyfriend and girlfriend means being committed to you.
- Don't you wish your girlfriend was hot like Kevin?
- We've got best guy friend, his girlfriend, my long distance boyfriend.
- So today I'm going with my girlfriend to this.
- He dumped his porn star girlfriend on Valentine's Day.
- This is Cairns, so and Paul and his girlfriend now wife.
- It was weird to go after your son's girlfriend, Owen Mason Gentry.
- He doesn't want a girlfriend, but he acts like a boyfriend.
- It came from my ex-girlfriend after we broke up.
- Online accounts, work and Xander's girlfriend who's currently held hostage.
Examples
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Any message for his new girlfriend Sarah and their new baby?
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But I also love my girlfriend, Chantelle.
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Yeah, that was his girlfriend at the time, right?
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You have no job, no car, no girlfriend, no house, no money.
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And last October, I was married to my girlfriend of four years.
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But not because my girlfriend told me to.
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Oh, being a girlfriend is the greatest thing in the world.
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You got a girlfriend yet?
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Being boyfriend and girlfriend means being committed to you.
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Without thinking, I admitted that my girlfriend was on a scholarship.
Academic text (2011)
Synonyms
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1.0
A young woman who is a man's romantic partner
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1.0
A person you love in a romantic way
878
1.1
A husband, wife, or long-term companion in a romantic relationship
614
1.0
A person who has a romantic or sexual relationship with someone
40
3.7
A woman who is in a romantic relationship with a man
33
3.3
A person you have a long romantic relationship with and often live with
5
9.1
An informal, friendly name for a girlfriend or young woman
4
9.5
A person you love and feel close to
1
7.8
A woman who is a man's sweetheart
1
9.4
A casual name for a person you date, often a girlfriend
A woman who dates someone but is not a serious or exclusive partner
Antonyms
Compounds
- Informal
A woman who dates someone but is not a serious or exclusive partner
How Affectionate
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Girlfriend is simply girl + friend, originally meaning a 'girl who is a friend'. Over time it came to mean a girl or young woman who is a 'romantic partner', so today girlfriend usually means someone's romantic partner.