significant other
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significant other
noun significant others
- 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.
- 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.
