Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A female companion or friend with whom one has a sexual or romantic relationship.
- noun A female friend.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun any female friend.
- noun a girl or young woman with whom a man is romantically involved.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
female partner in aromantic relationship . - noun A
female friend .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a girl or young woman with whom a man is romantically involved
- noun any female friend
Etymologies
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Examples
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I mean, really: The second you tell your friends that your live-in girlfriend is a prostitute (20 years your junior) is the moment your friends need to stage an intervention.
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I mean, really: The second you tell your friends that your live-in girlfriend is a prostitute (20 years your junior) is the moment your friends need to stage an intervention.
Various and Sundry: Blu Rays, Tech, HDTV, and More » 2005 » November 2005
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I've dated a woman for four years, and it comes a point in your life where you decide that the title girlfriend is not really appropriate, you know, and significant other, and all the words that we seem to have these days floating around.
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Another guest asks Kanye if he knows his girlfriend is a bird.
Kanye West debuts 'Runaway' movie: We watch and recap Liz Kelly 2010
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Plus if his girlfriend is there then that might be another reason why he would be in Italy when not actually working.
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The easiest way to do that would be to put someone he knows in danger, for example, his girlfriend is attacked by a supervillain shortly after the hero gains his powers.
Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Andy.C’s Review Forum 2009
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And if your girlfriend is anything like mine, she starts crying because she's so scared and she gets mad and storms out of the room and then you don't have sex for a week or so.
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Justin and Rebecca: The med student consumed with trying to diagnose his under-the-weather girlfriend is an utterly realistic plot line.
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When your girlfriend is airlifted away to get tortured, you, as a gamer, trust that you will be able to get to her on foot.
Not Now, Honey, I'm Exploring SVGL 2009
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For you to get where you are today between you and your girlfriend is a remarkable achievement.
seanahan commented on the word girlfriend
My girlfriend she's at the end, she is starting to cry.
October 21, 2007
milosrdenstvi commented on the word girlfriend
It's always really confused me when women refer to other female friends of theirs as "girlfriends". Can't really say why.
Besides all that, this is a rather ugly word.
December 29, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word girlfriend
Same for me (I don't find it an ugly word, though).
Also, if a man referred to their male friends as "boyfriends", people would immediately think of something else...
December 29, 2010
ruzuzu commented on the word girlfriend
Does it help if there's a space between the words for those times when it's a girl-who's-a-friend or a boy-who's-a-friend?
December 29, 2010
yarb commented on the word girlfriend
I find it odd, too. In the UK a woman's femal friends are simply her "friends".
December 30, 2010