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Girl
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun Girl has 5 senses
- girl(n = noun.person) fille, miss, missy, young lady, young woman - a young woman; "a young lady of 18" has particulars: babe, baby, sister, belle, bimbo, chachka, tchotchke, tchotchkeleh, tsatske, tshatshke, chit, colleen, bird, chick, dame, doll, skirt, wench, flapper, gal, gamine, gibson girl, jeune fille, lass, lassie, young girl, maid, maiden, may queen, queen of the may, mill-girl, party girl, peri, ring girl, rosebud, sex bomb, sex kitten, sexpot, shop girl, soubrette, sweater girl, hoyden, romp, tomboy, valley girl, working girl
- girl(n = noun.person) female child, little girl - a youthful female person; "the baby was a girl"; "the girls were just learning to ride a tricycle" is a kind of female, female person
- girl(n = noun.person) daughter - a female human offspring; "her daughter cared for her in her old age" is a kind of female offspring
- girl(n = noun.person) girlfriend, lady friend - a girl or young woman with whom a man is romantically involved; "his girlfriend kicked him out" is a kind of lover, adult female, woman
- girl(n = noun.person) Array - a friendly informal reference to a grown woman; "Mrs. Smith was just one of the girls" is a kind of adult female, woman
is a kind of adult female, woman
Derived form noun girlhood1
has particulars: campfire girl, farm girl, flower girl, moppet, schoolgirl, scout
Antonym: boy
Derived form noun girlhood1
has particulars: mother's daughter
Antonym: boy
CIDE DICTIONARY
Girl, n. [OE. girle, gerle, gurle, a girl (in sense 1): cf. LG. gör child.].
- A young person of either sex; a child. Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- A female child, from birth to the age of puberty; a young maiden. [1913 Webster]
- A female servant; a maidservant. [1913 Webster]
- A roebuck two years old. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
Girl, n.
1 a female child or youth.
2 colloq. a young (esp. unmarried) woman.
3 colloq. a girlfriend or sweetheart.
4 a female servant.
1 a female child or youth.
2 colloq. a young (esp. unmarried) woman.
3 colloq. a girlfriend or sweetheart.
4 a female servant.
Idiom
girl Friday see FRIDAY.
Derivative
girlhood n.
Etymology
ME gurle, girle, gerle, perh. rel. to LG g{ouml}r child
THESAURUS
Girl
Dulcinea, Eve, Frau, Fraulein, abigail, amah, au pair girl, ayah, babe, baby, best girl, betrothed, betweenmaid, biddy, bird, broad, chambermaid, chaperon, chick, colleen, companion, cook, crumpet, cutie, dame, damoiselle, damsel, daughter of Eve, deb, debutante, demoiselle, distaff, doll, domina, donna, dowager, dream girl, duenna, female, femme, femme de chambre, fiancee, fille de chambre, filly, frail, friend, frow, gal, gamine, gentlewoman, gill, girl friend, girlie, handmaid, handmaiden, heifer, hired girl, housemaid, hoyden, inamorata, jeune fille, jill, jo, junior miss, kitchenmaid, lady, lady friend, lady love, lady-help, lady-in-waiting, lass, lassie, little missy, live-in maid, live-out maid, lover, mademoiselle, maid, maiden, maidservant, matron, milady, miss, missy, mistress, moll, mouse, nursemaid, nymphet, old lady, parlormaid, piece, quail, quiff, romp, schoolgirl, schoolmaid, schoolmiss, scullery maid, servant girl, servitress, skirt, slip, soubrette, squaw, squeeze, subdeb, subdebutante, subteen, subteener, sweetheart, tally, teenybopper, tomato, tomboy, tweeny, twist, upstairs maid, virgin, vrouw, wahine, waiting maid, weaker vessel, wench, woman, young creature, young thingROGET THESAURUS
Girl
Infant
N infant, babe, baby, babe in arms, nurseling, suckling, yearling, weanling, papoose, bambino, kid, vagitus, child, bairn, little one, brat, chit, pickaninny, urchin, bantling, bratling, elf, youth, boy, lad, stripling, youngster, youngun, younker, callant, whipster, whippersnapper, whiffet, schoolboy, hobbledehoy, hopeful, cadet, minor, master, scion, sap, seedling, tendril, olive branch, nestling, chicken, larva, chrysalis, tadpole, whelp, cub, pullet, fry, callow, codlin, codling, foetus, calf, colt, pup, foal, kitten, lamb, lambkin, aurelia, caterpillar, cocoon, nymph, nympha, orphan, pupa, staddle, girl, lass, lassie, wench, miss, damsel, demoiselle, maid, maiden, virgin, hoyden, infantine, infantile, puerile, boyish, girlish, childish, babyish, kittenish, baby, newborn, unfledged, new-fledged, callow, in the cradle, in swaddling clothes, in long clothes, in arms, in leading strings, at the breast, in one's teens.Woman
N woman, she, her, female, petticoat, feminality, muliebrity, womanhood, womankind, the sex, the fair, fair sex, softer sex, weaker vessel, dame, madam, madame, mistress, Mrs, lady, donna belle, matron, dowager, goody, gammer, Frau, frow, Vrouw, rani, good woman, good wife, squaw, wife, matronage, matronhood, bachelor girl, new woman, feminist, suffragette, suffragist, nymph, wench, grisette, girl, sissy, betty, cot betty, cotquean, henhussy, mollycoddle, muff, old woman, hen, bitch, sow, doe, roe, mare, she goat, Nanny goat, tabita, ewe, cow, lioness, tigress, vixen, gynecaeum, estrogen, oestrogen, consanguinity &c, paternity, lesbian, dyke, female, she-, feminine, womanly, ladylike, matronly, maidenly, wifely, womanish, effeminate, unmanly, gynecic, gynaecic, Pron, she, her, hers, ', a perfect woman nobly planned, a lovely lady garmented in white, das Ewig-Weibliche zieht uns hinan, earth's noblest thing, a woman perfected, es de vidrio la mujer, she moves a goddess and she looks a queen, the beauty of a lovely woman is like music, varium et mutabile semper femina, woman is the lesser man.
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