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girlfriend

Definition for girlfriend

noun as in female acquaintance or romantic companion

Strongest matches

companion, friend, partner, sweetheart

Strong matches

confidante, date, flame, intimate, steady

Weak matches

fiancée, soul mate

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Related: My girlfriend, a widow in her 40s, pays off her credit card after every transaction.

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“You stole my job and you stole my girlfriend,” Timothy says bitterly.

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My girlfriend, a widow in her 40s, pays off her credit card after every transaction.

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Collins was well into her 40s when she starred in “Shirley Valentine,” a witty but disgruntled homemaker who accepts a girlfriend’s offer to travel to Greece to bring much-needed spice back to her life.

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Browner was getting ready to go to the hospital Tuesday morning, according to TMZ, “when he curled over the side of a chair and collapsed to the floor next to his girlfriend.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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