novian.
/ˈnɒvɪə/, /ˈnəʊvɪə/, U.S. /ˈnɑviə/, /ˈnoʊviə/ In Spain and Spanish-speaking countries and amongst Hispanic Americans: a girlfriend, a fiancée; a bride. Cf. novio n.
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the mind > emotion > love > a lover > [noun] > one who is loved or a sweetheart > specifically a female sweetheart or girlfriend
lief971
ladya1393
ladyshipa1393
speciala1400
amiec1400
womanc1400
amoreta1425
mistressc1425
paramoura1450
fair ladya1470
girl?a1513
sooterkin1530
Tib1533
she1547
lady-love1568
jug1569
young lady1584
pigeon1592
love-lass1594
lass1596
dowsabel1612
swainling1615
lucky1629
Dulcinea1638
Lindabrides1640
inamorata1651
baby1684
best girl1691
lady friend1733
young woman1822
moll1823
querida1834
sheila1839
bint1855
tart1864
babykins1870
Dona1874
novia1874
fancy-girl1892
girlfriend1892
cliner1895
tootsy1895
dinah1898
best1904
twist and twirl1905
jane1906
kitten1908
patootie1918
meisie1919
bride1924
gf1925
jelly1931
sort1933
a bit (also piece) of homework1945
beast1946
queen1955
momma1964
mi'jita1970
her indoors1979
girlf1991
society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > betrothal > [noun] > betrothed person > woman
spousessc1384
bride-to-be1829
fiancé1853
novia1874
society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > wedding or nuptials > people connected with wedding > [noun] > bride
brideOE
spousessc1384
espousee1480
bridewoman1530
bride-wife1567
espousess1597
novia1874
makoti1949
1874 Appletons' Jrnl. 21 Nov. 662/3 That young lady that you have been dancing so much with is my novia.
1887 Overland Monthly Jan. 52/1 A..donkey, destined to bear the novia to the village..where the..priest..had consented to earn a royal fee by uniting two poor peasants in holy matrimony.
1924 Chambers's Jrnl. Sept. 562/2 His real object was to see his novia & get married.
1968 D. Ray Dragging Main & Other Poems 5 They stroll in pairs the novia and the novio Press each other's wrists.
1992 C. McCarthy All Pretty Horses (1993) iv. 243 He told them that he had a novia who was in another town and that he was riding to her to ask her to be his wife.
1999 F. Goldman in Washington Post (Electronic ed.) 18 July A cargo ship in the middle of the ocean is a bad place to be fighting with your novia.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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