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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: any female friend; "Mary and her girlfriend organized the party"
2: a girl or young woman with whom a man is romantically involved; "his girlfriend kicked him out" [syn: girlfriend, girl, lady friend]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1859 1. a female friend 2. a frequent or regular female companion in a romantic or sexual relationship

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 a regular female companion or lover. 2 a female friend.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(girlfriends) Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 1. Someone's girlfriend is a girl or woman with whom they are having a romantic or sexual relationship. He had been going out with his girlfriend for seven months... Has he got a girlfriend? N-COUNT: oft poss N 2. A girlfriend is a female friend. I met a girlfriend for lunch. N-COUNT