What (who) is boyfriend - definition
REGULAR MALE COMPANION IN A PLATONIC, ROMANTIC OR SEXUAL RELATIONSHIP
Male sweetheart; Boyfriend'; Gentleman friend; Boyfriends; Boy-friend; Guy friend; BoyFriend
![A woman with her boyfriend at [[Alexanderplatz]] in March 1975](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bundesarchiv Bild 183-P0310-0025, Berlin, Straßenszene.jpg?width=200 "A woman with her boyfriend at [[Alexanderplatz]] in March 1975")
boyfriend
¦ noun a person's regular male companion in a romantic or sexual relationship.
boyfriend
n. a steady boyfriend
Boyfriend
A boyfriend is a male friend or acquaintance, often specifying a regular male companion with whom a person is romantically or sexually involved.Compact Oxford English Dictionary of Current English , published 23 June 2005, University of Oxford, edition
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Boyfriend
A boyfriend is a man who is a friend or acquaintance to the speaker, often specifying a regular male companion with whom a person is romantically or sexually involved.
A boyfriend can also be called an admirer, beau, suitor and sweetheart. The analogous term for women is "girlfriend".
Pronunciation examples for boyfriend
1. A boyfriend?
The Uninvited (2009)
2. boyfriend can,
How to Be Black _ Baratunde Thurston _ Talks at Google
3. It's a boyfriend/girlfriend situation, or former boyfriend,
A Path Appears _ Nicolas Kristof _ Talks at Google
4. and including my ex-boyfriend, my high school boyfriend, who--
Small Fry _ Lisa Brennan-Jobs _ Talks at Google
5. their boyfriend, their son?
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Examples of use of boyfriend
1. However, wasn‘t Josh Brennan Natasha‘s EX–boyfriend, not her boyfriend?
2. Winehouse dumped her chef boyfriend Alex Claire in March and reunited with her ex–boyfriend Fielder–Civil days later.
3. G. "She say her father would beat her if he knew she had a boyfriend, especially a Sunni boyfriend!" Lt.
4. Just having a boyfriend strikes her as oxymoronic: "Hannah‘s boyfriend – they will always be the weirdest words Hannah can imagine.
5. The boyfriend remained in critical condition yesterday.