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significant other definition

☆ significant other

  1. a person having importance in, or influence on, another's life
  2. a person with whom one has an intimate, often long-term and usually sexual, relationship

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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