boyfriends
SayBOY-frendz/ˈbɔɪˌfɹɛndz/
- 1Plural of boyfriend.
Several women in the office complained that their boyfriends never remembered anniversaries.
The roommates invited their boyfriends over for a shared dinner on Friday.
Note
A regular plural that adds -s to the end of the whole compound, not to boy inside it. It covers both the romantic meaning and the plainer "male friend," so context decides which is meant. The clothing sense behaves differently: used attributively, it stays singular before its noun (boyfriend jeans, boyfriend shirts) even when several garments are meant.
boyfriends is a form of boyfriend
boyfriend, noun: A male partner in a romantic relationship who is not married to the other person. Full entry
- Forms
- boyfriendboyfriends plural
- Spelling
- boyfriend → boyfriends: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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