Dear and Girl

Dear

Dear noun - A person with whom one is in love.

Usage example: I love you, dear

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Girl and dear are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Girl" instead a noun "Dear".

Nearby Words: dearly, deary, dearie

Girl noun - A female romantic companion.

Usage example: sent her a note asking her to be his girl

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Dear and girl are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Dear" instead a noun "Girl".

Nearby Words: girlish, girlhood, girlie

kind	kind dear	kind girl
poor	poor dear	poor girl
little	little dear	little girl
quiet	quiet dear	quiet girl
Other adjectives: beautiful, random.

While Tatewaki refers to girl-form Ranma as "pig-tailed girl", "my love", "my Venus", and Akane as "my dear Akane" and the like.

Source: Terms of Endangerment
Both of these works feature a queen with ice powers, a girl who goes on a dangerous journey through a winter landscape to find someone dear to her...and that's where the similarities end.

Source: Inspired By
The My Dear Marie OVA ending shows the life of the title character if she had been a normal girl instead of a Robot Girl, from birth to career and marriage.

Source: Creative Closing Credits

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