| 单词 | boyfriend |
| 释义 | boyfriend (once / 3675 pages) n A boyfriend is a male romantic partner. Your cousin might ask if she can bring her boyfriend to the family Thanksgiving dinner this year. Usually, your boyfriend is a boy or man you're romantically involved with. Your aunt might join a dating site after breaking up with her boyfriend, and your ten year old neighbor might announce she has a boyfriend after a boy leaves a candy bar on her desk. The words boyfriend and girlfriend first appeared in the early 1900s, around the start of modern dating in the US. WORD FAMILYboyfriend: boyfriends, ex-boyfriend+/ex-boyfriend: ex-boyfriends USAGE EXAMPLESBaby Peter Connelly died in 2007 after months of abuse at the hands of his mother, her boyfriend and his brother. BBC(Dec 30, 2016) Even the scene where the family is in the living room, listening to the bedsprings rattle while the 18-year-old sister is upstairs with her boyfriend? New York Times(Dec 29, 2016) She talked at length about how much she liked her daughter’s new boyfriend and how proud she was of her. The Guardian(Dec 29, 2016) n 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 Syn|Hyper beau, fellow, swain, young man lover a person who loves someone or is loved by someone adult male, manan adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman) |
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