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sexual partner

sexual partner noun: a person with whom someone has sex.

Noun

sexual partner (plural sexual partners)

  1. A person with whom someone has sex.
    • They had dozens of sexual partners before they married each other. Dance-floor romances, Ibiza flings. The Nineties, ecstatic decade!2012, Zadie Smith, NW, London: Penguin Books, published 2013, →ISBN, page 23

Synonyms of sexual partner

Forms of sexual partner

pluralsexual partners

Questions about sexual partner

What does sexual partner mean?
Sexual partner means a person with whom someone has sex.
What part of speech is sexual partner?
Sexual partner is a noun.
What is the plural of sexual partner?
The plural of sexual partner is sexual partners.

Words near sexual partner in the dictionary

  1. sexual offenders
  2. sexual orientation
  3. sexual orientation and gender identity change efforts
  4. sexual orientation change efforts
  5. sexual orientations
  6. sexual partner
  7. sexual partners
  8. sexual play
  9. sexual politics
  10. sexual predator
  11. sexual predators

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