novio

American  

[naw-vyaw, noh-vee-oh] / ˈnɔ vjɔ, ˈnoʊ viˌoʊ /

noun

Spanish.

• novios
  plural

1. a fiancé or bridegroom.

2. a boyfriend or sweetheart.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• novios
  plural

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Example Sentences

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novio novios

Then follow ranks of taper-bearing soldiers, and my friends in the balcony call proudly down to different officers, a son, a husband, a blushing novio, whom they present to me then and there.

From Spanish Highways and Byways by Katharine Lee Bates

I shall have an acknowledged novio myself soon, I hope.

From The Car of Destiny by Armand Both

A fe mia—in all your life but one novio?

From Play the Game! by Ruth Comfort Mitchell

I shall not forget the expression with which a Sevillian belle, an exquisite dancer, watched her novio as, red and perspiring, he flung his stout legs valiantly through the mazes of the jota.

From Spanish Highways and Byways by Katharine Lee Bates

I asked whether she had a novio, or lover; and the question set her laughing immoderately.

From The Land of The Blessed Virgin; Sketches and Impressions in Andalusia by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham

As for Raul, he offered me his class ring & wanted us to be novios.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez

The sky Is almost blue and A blessed wind Has cooled the hallway The high school novios Are now married, Belinda and Rudolfo.

From "Neighborhood Odes" by Gary Soto

So in Spain the opportunities allowed the novios, the young people who choose each other from mutual attraction, are unheard of in France or Italy.

From Heroic Spain by Elizabeth Boyle O'Reilly

As for me—as for my own little affair—I'm pushing that away, until my novios are safe.

From Jane Journeys On by Ruth Comfort Mitchell

But every hour that I stayed there saw my novios nearer to safety, and the Budders wouldn't know and wouldn't worry.

From Jane Journeys On by Ruth Comfort Mitchell

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