girlfriend

or girl friend

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/ ˈgɜrlˌfrɛnd /

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noun

a frequent or favorite female companion; sweetheart.

a female friend.

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Origin of girlfriend

First recorded in 1855–60; girl + friend

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A boy fighting with his girlfriend exclaimed, “What do you want me to do, kill myself?”
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First they labeled me the “girlfriend,” then I was the “cougar girlfriend.”
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“There was great reception,” Drew jokes, adding that perhaps he and his girlfriend, a fellow workaholic, enable each other.
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Last time, he took me to the school yard and showed me you and your girlfriend.
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What I found in the cave was the body of my first girlfriend.
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One morning she had brought her daughter to the China department in order to select a wedding-present for a girlfriend.
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British Dictionary definitions for girlfriend

girlfriend

/ (ˈɡɜːlˌfrɛnd) /

noun

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

any female friend

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Word Origin and History for girlfriend

girlfriend

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

noun

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girlfriend

noun

girlfriend