单词 | significant other |
释义 | > as lemmassignificant other significant other n. (a) Social Psychology any person with great influence on the behaviour, self-opinion, etc., of another (esp. of a child); (b) (in later use) a person with whom someone has an established romantic or sexual relationship; a partner. ΚΠ 1940 H. S. Sullivan in Psychiatry 3 22/1 The point is that the self is approved by significant others, that any tendencies of the personality that are not so approved..are dissociated from personal awareness. 1977 Toronto Star 21 May b5 Some skirt the problem by using such words as ‘fiancee’, ‘co-hab’, ‘inamorata’, ‘significant other’. 1987 A. Maupin Significant Others xiv. 115 ‘We aren't in love now’, he said. She nodded. ‘But she's still your significant other.’ 1998 Community Care 30 Apr. 33/1 Psychosocial factors, highlighted by the researcher and the families—such as the overall well-being of the child in the context of their family and extended family, significant others, school and so on—were ignored. 2009 Metro 10 Feb. (London ed.) 29/5 Romance beckons and about time too. Make time for your significant other over and above absolutely everything else today. < as lemmas |
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