Definitions for boyfriend
ˈbɔɪˌfrɛndboyfriend

Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. boyfriend, fellow, beau, swain, young man(noun)

   a man who is the lover of a girl or young woman

   "if I'd known he was her boyfriend I wouldn't have asked"

Wiktionary(5.00 / 3 votes)Rate this definition:

1. boyfriend(Noun)

   A male partner in a romantic relationship.

2. boyfriend(Noun)

   A male friend.

Freebase(4.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. Boyfriend

   A boyfriend is a regular male companion in a romantic and/or sexual relationship. This is normally not in long-term committed relationships, where other titles are more commonly used. A boyfriend can also be called an admirer, beau, fiancé, suitor and soul mate. A boyfriend is sometimes taken to check for compatibility in a relationship.

British National Corpus

1. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'boyfriend' in Written Corpus Frequency: #4405

2. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'boyfriend' in Nouns Frequency: #2535

How to pronounce boyfriend?

1. 

   Alex

   US English

   

   Daniel

   British

   

   Karen

   Australian

   

   Veena

   Indian

How to say boyfriend in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of boyfriend in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of boyfriend in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of boyfriend in a Sentence

1. Martha Ordonez:

   Femicide doesn't just happen from one day to the next. There's a history of threats, of psychological and physical abuse that gets worse, which often starts from the first boyfriend a girl has.

2. Katharine Hepburn:

   The average Hollywood film star's ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend.

3. John Green:

   But I lacked the courage and she had a boyfriend and I was gawky and she was gorgeous and I was hopelessly boring and she was endlessly fascinating so I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was a drizzle and she was a hurricane.

4. Will Smith:

   Tyler doesn't want to say but Tyler's my m **** f *** ing boyfriend, and he's been my my m **** f *** ing boyfriend my whole f ** king life.

5. Venus Iraheta:

   Iraheta told interrogators in the newly released video, referring to her dead boyfriend.

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