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(n)
(dated, US, Canada) A male lover; a boyfriend.
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(chiefly in the plural, also figuratively) A companion; a comrade.
(poetic) A rural lover; a male sweetheart in a pastoral setting.
A term of endearment or admonishment by adults for a young boy.
A female partner in an unmarried romantic relationship.
An adult male human.
A former boyfriend.
A male child.
(UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, informal) A fellow, a man; especially an ordinary man, a man on the street.
One who loves and cares for another person in a romantic way; a sweetheart, love, soulmate, boyfriend, girlfriend, or spouse.
(chiefly US, Canada, colloquial) A man, generally a younger man.
(often as a term of address) A person who is much loved.
(slang) An attractive person, especially a young woman. [from 20th c.]
Alternative spelling of fiancée. [(formal, somewhat dated) A woman who is engaged to be married; the woman to whom one is engaged.]
A person very much liked or loved by someone, especially when both partners are young.
(formal, somewhat dated) A woman who is engaged to be married; the woman to whom one is engaged.
Often used as an affectionate term of address: a person who is very dear to one.
Alternative spelling of fiancé. [A man who is engaged to be married; the man to whom one is engaged; an intended.]
A man who is engaged to be married; the man to whom one is engaged; an intended.
A man who is about to marry.
A man in the context of his own wedding; one who is going to marry or has just been married.
A very young human, particularly from birth to a couple of years old or until walking is fully mastered.
(UK, Canada, chiefly Cockney, MLE, MTE, Australia, slang) Brother, mate, friend.
(slang) Brother (a male sibling).
Alternative spelling of bra (“brother, friend”). [An item of clothing, usually underwear worn to support the breasts.]
(dated) A friend; a pal.
(Australian Aboriginal) Used as a general intensifier; a pfella.
A person, typically someone other than a family member, spouse or lover, whose company one enjoys and towards whom one feels affection.
A friend or casual acquaintance.
Son of the same parents as another person.
(US) An affectionate term of address.
A friend, acquaintance, or partner; someone with whom one spends time or accompanies
A mate, companion, or associate.
A person or entity on the same side as one's own in a conflict.
An affectionate, familiar term of address, such as used between husband and wife.
A person with whom one shares a room, as in a dormitory, barracks, rooming house, or apartment.
A spouse or other person with whom one shares a domestic, romantic, or sexual bond.
A student who is in the same class at school.
A tradesman who has served an apprenticeship and is employed by a master tradesman.
The act of spending the night as a guest in another's house, especially when the participants are children.
One who or that which kills.
The Quakers; the Society of Friends.
(colloquial) A man or boy; a fellow.
A term of endearment; Honey, sweetheart
(colloquial) Someone, particularly a male acquaintance, from one’s hometown.
(US, slang) Term of address for a close, usually male, friend.
(colloquial) A friend, buddy, mate, cobber; someone to hang around with.
A town in Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan.
A fellow, comrade, colleague, partner or someone with whom something is shared, e.g. shipmate, classmate.
(usually uncountable, slang) Potent cannabis taken from the flowering part of the plant (the "bud"), or marijuana generally.
(uncountable) A sweet, viscous, gold-colored fluid produced from plant nectar by bees, and often consumed by humans.
A female given name, a rare spelling variant of Mae/May, or borrowed from Scandinavia, with the same ultimate origin.
A male given name from French.
Joseph Goebbels, chief propagandist for the Nazi Party, and then Reich Minister of Propaganda from 1933 to 1945.
One's exclusive romantic partner.
(slang) Clipping of boyfriend [A male partner in an unmarried romantic relationship.]
(somewhat dated) An illicit lover, either male or female.
One who pursues someone, especially a woman, for a romantic relationship or marriage; a wooer; one who falls in love with or courts someone.
A specific day in time at which a transaction or event takes place, or is appointed to take place; a given point of time.
(adj)
Constant in feeling, purpose, or pursuit; not fickle, changeable, or wavering; not easily moved or persuaded to alter a purpose; resolute.
(N)
the fifth, all instrumental studio album by jazz flugelhorn player Chuck Mangione.
The object of one’s desires or infatuation; a sweetheart.
(film, literature) One who is of interest as a (potential) partner in love.
A violent collision or compression; a crash; destruction; ruin.
(idiomatic) A spouse or a significant other.
Alternative spelling of boyfriend. [A male partner in an unmarried romantic relationship.]
Dated spelling of boyfriend.
A male friend.
(colloquial) A male friend, as opposed to a boyfriend or lover.
A person (not a spouse) with whom one lives and is romantically involved
(slang, endearing) Boyfriend.
(neologism) A non-binary partner in an unmarried romantic relationship.
Two partners in a romantic or sexual relationship.
Alternative form of girlfriend. [A female partner in an unmarried romantic relationship.]
(fiction) One of the main characters of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare: the ardent lover of Juliet.
(slang, neologism) A non-binary partner in an unmarried romantic relationship.
A member of a civil partnership
An adulterous relationship, chiefly of a married person. (from affaire de cœur, affair of the heart).
A man in a marriage or marital relationship, especially in relation to his spouse.
A romantic partner for life. This can be same-sex or opposite-sex, married or without marriage, and monogamous or polyamorous.
A person with whom someone has sex.
A female friend.
The brother of one's boyfriend or girlfriend.
A male lover.
A lover; a romantic partner.
A person in a marriage or marital relationship.
The father of one's boyfriend or girlfriend.
(informal) A significant other.
That which is considered to exist as a separate entity, object, quality or concept.
A male sexual partner.
(slang) A close but nonsexual relationship between two or more men.
(colloquial) A male friend.
A person who is engaged to be married.
Having no husband or wife.
Two similar or identical things taken together; often followed by of.
A male partner of a pregnant woman (mother-to-be), especially when she is pregnant for the first time.