girlfriend
Americannoun
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a female friend with whom a man or boy is romantically or sexually involved; sweetheart
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any female friend
Etymology
Origin of girlfriend
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Example Sentences
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He memorized symbols and repetitions when texting girlfriends, a trick he compares to a person who can’t speak Spanish singing along to “La Bamba.”
Thomas P was accused of failing to turn back or call for help in time after he left his girlfriend and reached the summit of the mountain.
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"That's where everyone makes their entrance, from the celebrities, the girlfriends and wives of the drivers."
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Epstein's long-term girlfriend Karyna Shuliak began leading the search for a property in Marrakech, with numerous visits and negotiations documented in emails under her name.
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At the time, Epstein was a money manager and jet-setting financier who, with his girlfriend Maxwell, was hobnobbing with the world's wealthiest from Buckingham Palace to Palm Beach and collecting powerful friends along the way.
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