NOUN
- a person (not necessarily a spouse) with whom you cohabit and share a long-term sexual relationship
How To Use significant other In A Sentence
- Even if you're running a one-person business, invite your spouse or significant other, a trusted friend who knows your business, and--if you can afford the hourly fees--your accountant or attorney.
- You were friends and lovers, you were companions, you were significant others.
- Have you ever wondered why you can never seem to understand your significant other?
- You should treat your significant other fairly and equally with respect.
- Indulge your weakness for romantic clichés by taking your significant other for a canoe ride on the Glenmore Reservoir or into the wilds of the adjacent Weaselhead area.
- No person ever came over to their significant other's place to say "I don't want to be with you anymore and I know this feeling is not mutual" and left the dumpee commenting, "Well, he / she handled that really well."
- Trouble is if you are still in conflict mode with your former significant other, you are still in the throes of what I call the "emotional divorce. Tara Fass: The Best Thing You Can Do For Your Kids Post-Split
- Remember to never kiss your significant other immediately after freebasing crack-cocaine.
- If you're looking for a record from whiny white kids lamenting the complete hopelessness of ever finding another significant other, please look elsewhere.
- I've dated a woman for four years, and it comes a point in your life where you decide that the title girlfriend is not really appropriate, you know, and significant other, and all the words that we seem to have these days floating around. CNN Transcript Aug 9, 2003
