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LADY FRIEND
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Dictionary entry overview: What does lady friend mean?
• LADY FRIEND (noun)
The noun LADY FRIEND has 1 sense:
1. a girl or young woman with whom a man is romantically involved
Familiarity information: LADY FRIEND used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A girl or young woman with whom a man is romantically involved
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
girl; girlfriend; lady friend
Context example:
his girlfriend kicked him out
Hypernyms ("lady friend" is a kind of...):
lover (a person who loves someone or is loved by someone)
adult female; woman (an adult female person (as opposed to a man))
Context examples
"Oh, just a lady friend," was his answer.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
"Who was that lady friend I seen you with that night?" she asked abruptly.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
"They're goin' to have beer, an' if that Temescal bunch comes, there'll be a rough-house. I don't care, though. I'm takin' my lady friend just the same. Cripes, but I've got a taste in my mouth!"
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
"She's my lady friend," Jim explained, "and she's a peach. I'd introduce you to her, only you'd win her. I don't see what the girls see in you, honest I don't; but the way you win them away from the fellers is sickenin'."
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
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