Dear
Dear noun - A person with whom one is in love.
Usage example: I love you, dear
Girlfriend and dear are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Girlfriend" instead a noun "Dear".
Girlfriend
Girlfriend noun - A female romantic companion.
Usage example: he proposed to his girlfriend of seven years
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Synonyms for Girlfriend
Dear and girlfriend are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Dear" instead a noun "Girlfriend".
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Radar gets a "Dear John" record from his hometown girlfriend in "Love Story", complete with her new boyfriend saying hi and her telling him to stop groping her.
Source: Series / M*A*S*H - Supertramp's "Breakfast in America", which is a great song, still contains some awful rhyming: girlfriend/girlfriend, breakfast/Texas and dear/millionaire.
Source: Painful Rhyme -
Scandal: When Becky, Huck's girlfriend, finds out that he plans to take her down, she responds by murdering the entire family that Huck considers very dear to him!
Source: Woman Scorned
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