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Bond girl en · NOUN

Etymology

From James Bond + girl.

Meanings

1. One of the beautiful, seductive young women who appear in James Bond movies.
   • When a lunch companion suggested that she might not want to take the Halle Berry route should she be nominated for an Oscar for "Monster," and win — soul-searching performance followed by a turn as a Bond girl — Theron threw her head back and howled. 2004 February 2, The New Yorker:
   • [Xenia] Onatopp has been so deeply analysed, not just as a moment of Bond girl resurgence in the franchise – a move away from interchangeable damsels towards women who could crush you with their thighs, and whose only distress would be if they laddered their tights – but also for what, if any, statement it made about feminism as dominance, sadism as a baton passing from the male to the female. 2025 November 5, Zoe Williams, “‘I thought ‘Bond girl’ was such a demeaning term’: Famke Janssen on acting, ambition and Woody Allen”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
   • Sam scowled. 'I hate villains who call me Miss Jones,' she told him. 'It makes me feel like a Bond girl.' 1998, Justin Richards, chapter 12, in Option Lock, page 232:
2. (qualifier:transferred sense) A beautiful, seductive young woman.

Forms

Translations (4)

sv Bondbrud (young women who appear in James Bond movies) · pl dziewczyna Bonda (young women who appear in James Bond movies) · es chica Bond (young women who appear in James Bond movies) · fi Bond-tyttö (young women who appear in James Bond movies)