girlfriend
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- noun
- /ˈɡɪrˌlfrɛnd/
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- My patience is running thin. "Do you have a girlfriend?" she asked him.
- friends and girlfriends
I'm, I'm, I'm seeing my girlfriends for a glass of wine tonight.
- I'm, I'm, I'm seeing my girlfriends for a glass of wine tonight.
- We all have girlfriends, friends that are girl girls.
- And it's four of us, my current best girlfriend and two guy friends.
- Certain people in the cast knew, my girlfriends in the cast knew.
- But The thing is, most of my my girlfriends are fluid.
Examples
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When I sit down with my girlfriends, we can talk for days.
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It's really important to have girlfriends and stuff like that and to keep those connections.
Academic text (2014) -
And it's four of us, my current best girlfriend and two guy friends.
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I was like a sister to my girlfriend who died nearly three years ago.
Academic text (2010) -
Now I have another girlfriend who says I'm just like a sister to her.
Academic text (2010) -
Dee had been the only girl in the group and my girlfriend, off and on, since fourth grade.
Fiction book (1990) -
I went out one night with some girlfriends.
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I picture her last night smoking a joint with her girlfriends, all of them talking at once.
Fiction book (1994) -
Others became really interested in their girlfriends and lost interest in the birds.
Fiction book (1993) -
When I sit down with my girlfriends, we can talk for days.
Synonyms
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A person you know well and like who is not family or a romantic partner
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A young woman or a close female friend said in a friendly, playful way
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8.8
A female friend from the same neighborhood
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9.1
An informal, friendly name for a girlfriend or young woman
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8.9
A friendly word used to talk to someone you love or care about
Compounds
- Informal
A woman who dates someone but is not a serious or exclusive partner
How Serious
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Girlfriend is made of girl and friend, literally a 'girl who is a friend'. It can still be used to mean a woman you are close to in a friendly, non-romantic way, which is why people sometimes call their close female friends their 'girlfriends'.