What is the Meaning & Definition of boyfriend

The groom is the word that we usually use in our language to designate any individual of masculine gender that a loving relationship with another person who has marriage projects. Noteworthy is that the marriage plan not necessarily is a sine quanom to be appointed as groom, currently, that regardless whether or not end of marriage, is called boyfriend who maintains a relationship with anyone.
Their relationship to a boyfriend and a girlfriend it is known popularly as courtship. It is worth noting that the courtship is rather a State of our times, before the 20th century there was an intermediate step between singleness and marriage and even more was used to call boyfriend who had recently married.
Meanwhile, in the first decades of the last century they begin to appear the first expressions of the figure's boyfriend, who at this time was especially associated with the commitment of an impending marriage, i.e., not conceived as today a courtship in which had no short-term marriage plans.
But the thing not would remain static, nor much less, since a few decades later, in 1960 about the hand of what became known as the sexual revolution, began to dilute that "marriage" between courtship and marriage and then, such as today, dating does not necessarily mean it will be a marriage as soon as the bride and groom , but that the concept seeks nothing more than indicate the loving relationship to two individuals, who may also have same-sex.
Now well, in areas in which religion commands, is still retain the old ways that indicate that the courtship, will sooner or later sooner end in marriage. On the other hand in this context it is not for anything accepted or agreed that the couple live together, as it is common today, and to maintain sexual relations before getting the formal link.