Bond girl

English Etymology en :af James Bond girl + 1 Noun en fiction One of the beautiful, seductive young women who appear in James Bond movies. en 1998 Justin Richards Option Lock 12 232 Sam scowled. 'I hate villains who call me Miss Jones,' she told him. 'It makes me feel like a Bond girl.' en 2 Feb 2004 The New Yorker 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. en-GB Zoe Williams ‘I thought ‘Bond girl’ was such a demeaning term’: Famke Janssen on acting, ambition and Woody Allen The Guardian 2025-11-05 https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/nov/05/i-thought-bond-girl-such-demeaning-term-famke-janssen-acting-ambition-woody-allen 0261-3077 [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. en transferred sense A beautiful, seductive young woman. Translations young women who appear in James Bond movies Finnish: fi Bond-tyttö Polish: pl dziewczyna Bonda f Spanish: es chica Bond f Swedish: sv Bondbrud c en eponyms en Appearance British fiction Fictional characters James Bond Female people