significant other

What does significant other mean?

significant other means "a person (not necessarily a spouse) with whom you cohabit and share a long-term sexual relationship".

What is another word for significant other?

Close synonyms include domestic partner, spousal equivalent, spouse equivalent. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is significant other a common word?

significant other is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for significant other come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.