Boyfriend vs Friends - What's the difference?
boyfriend | friends |
A male partner in a romantic relationship.
* 2012 , (Justin Bieber), Boyfriend
A male friend.
Participants in a two-way friendship relationship.
As nouns the difference between boyfriend and friends
is that boyfriend is a male partner in a romantic relationship while friends is .As a proper noun friends is
the quakers; the.boyfriend
English
Alternative forms
* boy friend (dated)Noun
(en noun)- If I was your boyfriend , I’d never let you go
I can take you places you ain’t never been before.
Synonyms
* (male friend) guyfriend (slang)Usage notes
In contrast to its female equivalent, girlfriend, which is often used to describe a woman's close female friends, the term is not that often used in reference to non-romantic relationships. Boyfriend is a relatively modern term, and in the past has had implications of an illicit relationship (as sexual and romantic relationships outside marriage were generally frowned upon). It is now a generally accepted term and has no negative implications. Use of boyfriend generally implies that the male is a boy or a young man. An older man in a non-marital relationship and sometimes even a young man in a long-term relationship is more often described as a significant other or partner. Separating the word into its two components boy friend'' avoids the romantic implication nowadays, although ''boy friend'' used to mean the same as ''boyfriend does now. However, British and Australian men usually refer to a male friend as a mate. Similarly, Americans and Canadians use the term buddy.See also
* * girlfriend * husband * lover * significant other ----friends
English
Noun
(head)- I tried to be a friend to Jane but we never ''really'' made friends . She was never a friend to me.
- Jane and I made friends right away.
- We became''' friends in the war and remain ' friends to this day.
- We were friends''' with some girls from the other school and stayed '''friends with them.