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.

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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. Jane Anderson:

   Now when a woman comes with a black eye, and her occupation is listed as a dancer, we don't just assume that the guy who did this is her boyfriend.

2. One Rodeo resident:

   ALASKA WOMAN GETS 60 YEARS FOR SETTING COUCH ABLAZE WITH BOYFRIEND ON IT Contra Costa Fire Department spokesman Steve Hill said the tanks held varying amounts of ethanol. One tank alone contained around 167,000 gallons of the flammable substance. Approximately 200 firefighters were battling the blazes using foam on the flames and water to cool adjacent tanks to prevent them from catching fire. Officials closed Interstate 80, one of the busiest in the Bay Area at the peak of rush hour, causing major traffic jams.The California Highway Patrol said the closure was expected to last at least until midnight. CALIFORNIA LYFT DRIVER IS PULLED OVER SO POLICE CAN ARREST HER PASSENGER One Rodeo resident, One Rodeo resident, told The Associated Press he was sitting in bumper-to-bumper traffic trying to get home to his teenage son. His son had called him to say he heard a loud explosion. It literally rocked the house and then soon after, he heard what sounded like a jet plane.

3. Unknown:

   Be yourself. I mean, who are you kidding. If you be yourself, you'll find you're PERFECT friend. You're PERFECT boyfriend. You're PERFECT girlfriend. You'll be happy, instead of trying to be someone you know you aren't. You'd be a shadow of a figure you don't even recognize. Chained in a lie. If you be yourself, you'd have confidence, and life would be SO MUCH EASIER! Be yourself, for the sake of others who want to be friends with you, but don't know who you are. If you're yourself, maybe we'll get rid of the snobby popular girls that force you to be someone else. Think about it. Be yourself.

4. Jean Kilbourne:

   [Ads in the 1970s] were very blatantly sexist, in those days, there was no consciousness about the fact that this might not be a good idea or that this might be offensive. So [advertisers] were able to get away with an ad for a feminine hygiene spray that said, 'Feminine odor is everyone's problem.' Or a cigarette ad where a woman said, 'My boyfriend told me he loved me for my mind. I was never so insulted in my life.' Or an ad for a construction material, which showed a nude woman with a sort of large derriere and thighs, and the copy read, 'She's built like all our products ... heavy where she has to take the strain.'.

5. Jenny LaBaw:

   Three months ago my boyfriend and I visited Colorado to visit my family, i had tears down my cheeks and told him I decided to run cross-country for epilepsy.

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