SOFFA
SOFFA is the initialism of significant other.
Meaning of significant other
Noun
significant other (plural significant others)
- One's exclusive romantic partner.
- Almost half of working women who are married or live with a partner are seeing their significant other only in passing because the two work different shifts, an AFL-CIO poll found.2000 March 9, “Couples Working Different Shifts, Union Poll Finds”, in Deseret News, retrieved 27 Oct 2013, page D7
- Synonyms:
- better half, other half, partner, s/o, SO
- A person with whom one has an important bond of some kind.
- Dr. Nogueira said it was always preferable to have coaches drawn from a school's staff because a coach "is a significant other" to a student.1983 June 21, William E. Geist, “High Schools Struggle with Coach Shortage”, in New York Times, retrieved 27 Oct 2013
Forms of SOFFA
| plural | SOFFAs |
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Questions about SOFFA
- What is SOFFA the initialism of?
- SOFFA is the initialism of significant other.
Words near SOFFA in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: SOFFA (page history and authors); significant other (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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