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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: 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" [syn: boyfriend, fellow, beau, swain, young man]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1845 1. a male friend 2. a frequent or regular male companion in a romantic or sexual relationship

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. a person's regular male companion or lover.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(boyfriends) Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. Someone's boyfriend is a man or boy with whom they are having a romantic or sexual relationship. I don't know if she's got a boyfriend or not. N-COUNT: oft poss N

Moby Thesaurus

Casanova, Don Juan, Lothario, Romeo, admirer, amoroso, beau, beloved, caballero, cavalier, cavaliere servente, crush, esquire, fancy man, fellow, fiance, flame, gallant, gentleman friend, gigolo, heartthrob, inamorato, lady-killer, love-maker, lover, man, master, necker, old man, paramour, petter, philanderer, seducer, sheik, squire, steady, sugar daddy, swain, sweetheart, truelove, young man