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as in boyfriend
a male romantic companion
her new beau brought flowers when he picked her up for their first date
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as in dude
a man extremely interested in his clothing and personal appearance
in his youth he had been a flashy beau and now has a clothing line
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Recent Examples of beau
Drescher played Fran Frine and Shaughnessy played her onscreen boss-turned-beau, Maxwell Sheffield.
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Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 13 Sep. 2025
From the outside, Laura could be loving, protective, overbearing, even intrusive — while Cherry sows doubt for hiding pieces of her past despite ostensibly adoring her new beau.
—Proma Khosla, IndieWire, 10 Sep. 2025
Travis Kelce’s podcast and later becoming engaged to her beau of two years.
—Toni Fitzgerald, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
Among the film’s challenges were intimate scenes between María Ángeles and her new beau (Ahmed Boulane), which are sensitively handled.
—Alissa Simon, Variety, 29 Aug. 2025
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Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 13 Sep. 2025
From the outside, Laura could be loving, protective, overbearing, even intrusive — while Cherry sows doubt for hiding pieces of her past despite ostensibly adoring her new beau.
—Proma Khosla, IndieWire, 10 Sep. 2025
Travis Kelce’s podcast and later becoming engaged to her beau of two years.
—Toni Fitzgerald, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
Among the film’s challenges were intimate scenes between María Ángeles and her new beau (Ahmed Boulane), which are sensitively handled.
—Alissa Simon, Variety, 29 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for beau
Noun
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Over the summer the actress hit the desert and jetted to the islands with her boyfriend Van Hunt and wore an array of bikinis for their excursions.—
Starr Bowenbank,
PEOPLE,
29 Sep. 2025
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Trujillo ultimately met with her boyfriend, Aburto Guzman, outside a few blocks away from the school, according to court documents.—
Noe Padilla,
IndyStar,
29 Sep. 2025
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Every dude in this particular person's past had money.—
Charna Flam,
PEOPLE,
25 Sep. 2025
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But Jon was always just a coolass dude.—
Alphonse Pierre,
Pitchfork,
25 Sep. 2025
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“Beau.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/beau. Accessed 2 Oct. 2025.
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