girlfriend
noun
a frequent or favorite female companion; sweetheart.
girl friend
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a variation of
girlfriend.
Example Sentences
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Sophia says they want Girlhood to feel "as though you're talking to your girl friend or your best friend", focusing on friendships, relationship advice and wellbeing tips like music suggestions for unwinding.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2023
It simply means a guy has snapped his cap for some reason or other, usually because he got bad news from the girl friend.
From Slate ● Jun. 19, 2018
Australian Rod Pampling unwittingly got more than a girl friend, and future wife, when he started dating Angela, a clinical psychologist.
From Golf Digest ● Jan. 14, 2017
Already Eaton, whose girl friend is Canadian heptathlete Brianne Theisen, has set personal bests this season in half of the events that comprise the decathlon.
From Reuters ● Jun. 19, 2012
Daddy Bailey had a girl friend, who had begun corre-sponding with me some months before, and she was to meet me at the train.
From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou
