Noun
significant other (plural significant others)
- One's romantic partner, regardless of marital status or gender.
- 2000 March 9, "[http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=u_ZHAAAAIBAJ&sjid=-u0DAAAAIBAJ&pg=3173,3905600&dq=significant-other+|+significant-others&hl=en Couples Working Different Shifts, Union Poll Finds]," Deseret News, p. D7 (retrieved 27 Oct 2013):
- Almost half of working women who are married or live with a partner are seeing their significant other only in passing because the two work different shifts, an AFL-CIO poll found.
- 2006 Feb. 12, Michelle Singletary, "Love and money go hand in hand ↗," Boston Globe (retrieved 27 Oct 2013):
- More than half (57 percent) of consumers think it would be wonderfully romantic if their significant other booked tickets for a surprise international trip.
- 2000 March 9, "[http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=u_ZHAAAAIBAJ&sjid=-u0DAAAAIBAJ&pg=3173,3905600&dq=significant-other+|+significant-others&hl=en Couples Working Different Shifts, Union Poll Finds]," Deseret News, p. D7 (retrieved 27 Oct 2013):
- A person with whom one has an important bond of some kind.
- 1983 June 21, William E. Geist, "High Schools Struggle with Coach Shortage ↗," New York Times (retrieved 27 Oct 2013):
- Dr. Nogueira said it was always preferable to have coaches drawn from a school's staff because a coach "is a significant other" to a student.
- 1985 Dec. 14, Katherine Bishop, "Ward 5B: A Model of Care for AIDS ↗," New York Times (retrieved 27 Oct 2013):
- As in the rest of the hospital, a family member or "significant other" such as a lover or close friend, is allowed to spend the night in a patient's room on a cot.
- 1989 Dec. 26, Graham Vink, "[http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=FlFXAAAAIBAJ&sjid=UvADAAAAIBAJ&pg=1869,3346238&dq=significant-other+|+significant-others&hl=en Not At Home On The Range]," Spokesman-Review, p. F1 (retrieved 27 Oct 2013):
- If your spouse, children or other significant others are still whining about all those holiday leftovers you made them eat, maybe it's time to spruce up your culinary skills.
- 1983 June 21, William E. Geist, "High Schools Struggle with Coach Shortage ↗," New York Times (retrieved 27 Oct 2013):
- (romantic partner) better half, other half, partner, s/o
- French: moitié (literary), partenaire, compagnon, compagne
- German: Lebensgefährte, Lebensgefährtin
- Portuguese: cara-metade
- Russian: спу́тник жи́зни
- Spanish: novio, novia, media naranja
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