Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A favored female companion or sweetheart.
- n. A female friend.
Wiktionary
- n. A female partner in a romantic relationship.
- n. A female friend.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. any female friend.
- n. a girl or young woman with whom a man is romantically involved.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a girl or young woman with whom a man is romantically involved
- n. any female friend
Etymologies
- girl + friend (Wiktionary)
Examples
“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.”
“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.”
“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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“Plus if his girlfriend is there then that might be another reason why he would be in Italy when not actually working.”
“Justin and Rebecca: The med student consumed with trying to diagnose his under-the-weather girlfriend is an utterly realistic plot line.”
“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.”
“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.”
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“Another guest asks Kanye if he knows his girlfriend is a bird.”
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“For you to get where you are today between you and your girlfriend is a remarkable achievement.”
“The Texas cornerback fully understands his gambling ways on the field, accurately assesses the risk-reward factors and does not hesitate when asked if he or his girlfriend is the better athlete.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘girlfriend’.
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Words that shouldn't be used on a fir...
probation, trekkie, wart, unemployed, fetish, suspended driver'..., felon, aerophagia, undies, debt collector, girlfriend, boyfriend and 272 more...
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FUN - World of Warcraft terminology
cloth wearing player, new player, paladin specifica..., achievement, additional monster, sex, location, agility equivalen..., old kingdom, alchemist, alliance, alterac valley and 424 more...
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Nicknames you shouldn't give to an ax...
primrose, snookums, lavender, piglet, rainbow sunshine, kitten, fuzzy, sweetie, wiggles, care bear, love-a-lot, cheery and 87 more...
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National Library Agenda Summit
nla2006, summit, agenda, library, ala, diversity, education, learning, continuous, scan, environmental, plan and 646 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
a, abandon, ability, able, abortion, about, above, abroad, absence, absolute, absolutely, absorb and 4334 more...
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savage215's Words
pipe, yankee, knickerbocker, tennis, plasma, magma, volcano, car, truck, television, tv, word and 445 more...
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dienekes's Words
chutzpah, lexicon, intrepid, pedagogical, schlemiel, schism, erudite, anathema, pugilist, jaunty, paradigm, automaton and 949 more...
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The things they carried (List 2)
Listening to this as an audio book for the second time. Tim O'Brien uses simple words and phrases to great effect. Very few unfamilar and big words . The writing style reminds me of words from Joh...
The, Things, They, Carried, meant, fond, By necessity,, presented to him, far beyond, against the brick..., reaching, taut and 2940 more...
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♡LOVE and things like it♡
dedicated to my man Steven, without whom i would be addicted to drugs, lying in a gutter, hating myself, or hooking somewhere :)
affectionate, amative, amatory, amiable, ammophilous, amorous, ardent, attached to, attracted to, beloved, bewitching, bitten and 404 more...
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Ladies' Night
girl, lady, madame, miss, missy, woman, dame, mother, daughter, sister, aunt, grandmother and 50 more...
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Friends
homeboy, homie, friend, buddy, bro, dude, brother, dawg, pal, bff, girl, mate and 42 more...
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Jessica
loved, confused, happy, sad, stressed, me, new, cant let go, wont let go, turn back, stay, go and 30 more...
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identity
daughter, sister, girlfriend, student, passionate, pragmatic, outspoken, shy, fashionista, kind, stubborn, honest and 7 more...
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Go Team Venture!
blacula, guild, calamitous, sovereign, superscience, speedsuit, triad, necromancer, alchemist, monarch, henchmen, cocoon and 17 more...
Tweets
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yarb I find it odd, too. In the UK a woman's femal friends are simply her "friends". Dec 30, 2010
ruzuzu 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? Dec 29, 2010
Prolagus 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... Dec 29, 2010
milosrdenstvi 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. Dec 29, 2010
seanahan My girlfriend she's at the end, she is starting to cry. Oct 21, 2007