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Significant other

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    One's exclusive romantic partner.

    "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."

  2. 2
    a person (not necessarily a spouse) with whom you cohabit and share a long-term sexual relationship wordnet
  3. 3
    A person with whom one has an important bond of some kind.

    "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."

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