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

Example Sentences

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novio novios

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

From The Car of Destiny by Armand Both

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

Their chief talk is of lovers in the two stages of pretendiente and novio, and they are full of hints and imputations to one another of love affairs.

From A Woman's Impression of the Philippines by Mary Helen Fee

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

From Play the Game! by Ruth Comfort Mitchell

And he not even her novio as far as the world knew!

From Nostromo, a Tale of the Seaboard by Joseph Conrad

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

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

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

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

They are interested in my pretty novios and will timidly help us.

From Jane Journeys On by Ruth Comfort Mitchell

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