lady friend
40
3.7
- noun
- Informal
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novia
- He took his lady friend out for dinner to celebrate their anniversary.
Struggle myself with, well, sometimes it's sometimes finding a lady friend is not easy.
- Struggle myself with, well, sometimes it's sometimes finding a lady friend is not easy.
- You know, my lady friend accompanied me out there and we made it out there and, and we just checked them out and it was awesome.
Examples
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You think this lady friend of yours can help us out?
Fiction book (1996) -
I'm hoping you're my lady friend.
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Hope the lady friend looking for him looks good in black.
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Got something here for your lady friend.
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I got a nice new lady friend that I would like to get back to.
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The Colonel is sitting with a new lady friend.
Fiction book (1997) -
Will your lady friend be joining us?
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After that, he introduced me to his rich lady friend, who in turn introduced me to Lee Iacocca.
Blog text (29) -
"You've got a lady friend who lives around here?" She looked at him sharply, her gray eyes round.
Fiction book (1991) -
At the next table, a portly black man and his Japanese lady friend sip from a scorpion bowl with two Crazy Straws.
Fiction book (2002)
Synonyms
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1.0
A young woman who is a man's romantic partner
∞
1.0
A woman someone is dating
614
1.0
A person who has a romantic or sexual relationship with someone
33
3.3
A person you have a long romantic relationship with and often live with
14
7.9
A woman someone treats as their ideal partner for a long time
5
9.1
An informal, friendly name for a girlfriend or young woman
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
How Serious
Surface Forms
Morphology
The constituents 'lady' (woman) and 'friend' (someone with mutual affection) transparently yield the basic sense 'a female friend', so a B1 learner who knows both words will grasp the general idea. However, the specific implication of a romantic or euphemistic partner is pragmatic and culturally variable and not fully predictable from the parts, making the expression only partially transparent.
Etymology
The phrase lady friend may come from a polite way people used to talk about a man's companion. Calling her lady showed respect and adding friend made the connection sound private, so the phrase came to mean 'a man's romantic companion'.