Unit Nº31 v.0.4
Main Definitions
- engagement 1 |n| a mutual promise to marry.
- "He announced his engagement to his long-time girlfriend."
- "They were married last month after a short engagement."
- engagement 2 |n| a formal agreement to get married.
- "The couple are expected to announce their engagement today."
- "Were you surprised when Toni broke off your engagement."
- betrothal |n| a mutual promise or contract for a future marriage, called also espousal.
- "The play revolves round the betrothal of a duke to a doctor's daughter."
- espousal |n| |old| the act of becoming betrothed or engaged.
- troth |n| a mutual promise to marry.
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- date |n| a social or romantic appointment.
- ""I've got a date with Lucy tomorrow night."
- "I felt like a teenager going out on a first date."
- "I think I might ask her out on a date."
- rendezvous |n| a meeting where two people have arranged to meet at a particular time or place, often secretly.
- "She arranged a rendezvous with him in the hotel bar."
- tryst |literary| |n| a secret meeting between people who are having a romantic relationship.
- "A good place for a moonlight tryst."
- engagement ring 1 |n| a ring given and worn as a sight of bretrothal.
- engagement ring 2 |n| a ring given in token of betrothal; especially: a diamond solitaire so given by a man to his fiancée.
- "Jerry bought her a beautiful sapphire engagement ring."
- engagement party |n| a party thrown to celebrate a couple's recent engagement and to help future wedding guests to get to know one another.
- "Claudia Schiffer arrived hand-in-hand with her husband, the film director Matthew Vaughn, at an engagement party for Uma Thurman and Arpad Busson in London on Tuesday evening."
Couple
- couple |n| a pair of people who live together.
- "A married couple."
- "An delderly couple."
- duo / pair |n| two people who perform together or who are often seen together.
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Gilfriend
- bird |n| |UK| |inf| young woman or girlfriend
- girlfriend / lady friend / girl |n| a girl or young woman with whom a man is romantically involved.
Boyfiend
- boyfriend 1 |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."
- boyfriend 2 |n| a person's regular male companion in a romantic or sexual relationship.
- "She had a string of wealthy boyfriends before she finally married."
- beau |n| a boyfriend or male admirer.
- fellow |n| a man who is the lover of a girl or young woman.
- wooer |n|a man who courts a woman.
Fiancée
- fiancée |n| a woman who is engaged to be married.
- brides-to-be |n| a woman who is going to be married soon.
- "Jonathan's bride-to-be.".
Fiancé
- fiancé |n| the man whom a woman is going to marry.
- "Her fiancé was killed in the war."
- suitor 2 |n| a man who pursues a relationship with a woman with a view to marriage.
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