girlfriend

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noun

a frequent or favorite female companion; sweetheart.
a female friend.

Origin of girlfriend

First recorded in 1855–60; girl + friend

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Examples from the Web for girlfriend

Contemporary Examples

The phone is apparently the one he took from his girlfriend after shooting her outside Baltimore and heading for New York.
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Michael Daly
December 31, 2014
Thus begins an episode of The Mindy Project centered around a guy trying to have butt sex with his girlfriend.
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Kevin Fallon
December 30, 2014
A boy fighting with his girlfriend exclaimed, “What do you want me to do, kill myself?”
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Daniel Genis
December 8, 2014
First they labeled me the “girlfriend,” then I was the “cougar girlfriend.”
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Aurora Snow
November 26, 2014
“There was great reception,” Drew jokes, adding that perhaps he and his girlfriend, a fellow workaholic, enable each other.
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Kevin Fallon
November 25, 2014

Historical Examples

What I found in the cave was the body of my first girlfriend.
Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town
Cory Doctorow
You had sex with my girlfriend, in my house, while I was away, working.
Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom
Cory Doctorow
One morning she had brought her daughter to the China department in order to select a wedding-present for a girlfriend.
Mrs. Thompson
William Babington Maxwell
There was one, Cliff Boll, who could neither read nor write so he got several of us to write his letters to his girlfriend.
The Biography of a Rabbit
Roy Benson
Last time, he took me to the school yard and showed me you and your girlfriend.
Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town
Cory Doctorow

British Dictionary definitions for girlfriend

girlfriend

noun

a female friend with whom a man or boy is romantically or sexually involved; sweetheart
any female friend

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Word Origin and History for girlfriend

n.

also girl-friend, by 1863 as "a woman's female friend in youth," from girl + friend (n.). As a man's sweetheart, by 1922. She-friend was used 17c. in the same set of senses, of the mistress of a men and of a woman who is a close friend of another.

girlfriend

or girl friend

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Examples from the Web for girlfriend

Contemporary Examples

The phone is apparently the one he took from his girlfriend after shooting her outside Baltimore and heading for New York.

Thus begins an episode of The Mindy Project centered around a guy trying to have butt sex with his girlfriend.

A boy fighting with his girlfriend exclaimed, “What do you want me to do, kill myself?”

First they labeled me the “girlfriend,” then I was the “cougar girlfriend.”

“There was great reception,” Drew jokes, adding that perhaps he and his girlfriend, a fellow workaholic, enable each other.

Historical Examples

What I found in the cave was the body of my first girlfriend.

You had sex with my girlfriend, in my house, while I was away, working.

One morning she had brought her daughter to the China department in order to select a wedding-present for a girlfriend.

There was one, Cliff Boll, who could neither read nor write so he got several of us to write his letters to his girlfriend.

Last time, he took me to the school yard and showed me you and your girlfriend.

girlfriend

Word Origin and History for girlfriend

n.

Origin of girlfriend