girlfriend
See also: girl friend
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Pronunciation
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Audio (US): (file) - Hyphenation: girl‧friend
Noun
girlfriend (plural girlfriends)
- A female partner in an unmarried romantic relationship.
- Coordinate term: boyfriend
- Marc went to the park with his girlfriend and watched the sunset with her.
- 1966, “The Man Trap”, in Star Trek: The Original Series, season 1, episode 1 (television production), spoken by Capt. James T. Kirk (William Shatner), Paramount Pictures:
- Want to pick some flowers, doctor? When a man visits an old girlfriend she usually expects something like that.
- A female friend.
- Synonym: (slang) chickfriend
- Mary always enjoyed hanging out with her girlfriend Jessica.
Usage notes
- The term is used to refer to any girl or woman in a romantic relationship with another person.
- An adult woman in such a non-marital relationship is sometimes referred to instead as a significant other or partner, especially if the two partners are living together. Because girlfriend and partner mean different things to different people, the distinctions between the terms are subjective, and which term is used in a relationship will ultimately be determined by personal preference.
- The use of girlfriend for a female non-romantic friend of another female is limited in geographic distribution and sometimes preferred by older generations of speakers.
Translations
a female partner in a romantic relationship
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a female friend
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Derived terms
See also
(female partner in a romantic relationship):
(a female friend):
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