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- Dictionarygirl/ɡəːl/
noun
- 1. a female child: "a six-year-old girl" Similar
- 2. a young or relatively young woman: "I haven't got the time to meet girls" Similar
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The meaning of GIRL is a female child from birth to adulthood. How to use girl in a sentence.
GIRL definition: 1. a female child or young woman, especially one still at school: 2. a daughter: 3. a woman…. Learn more.
noun. a female child, from birth to full growth. a young, immature woman, especially formerly, an unmarried one. a daughter: My wife and I have two girls. Informal: Sometimes Offensive. a grown woman, especially when referred to familiarly: She's having the girls over for bridge next week. a girlfriend; sweetheart.
Definition of girl noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
A girl is a young woman, or a female child. If you have a 3-year-old daughter you have a little girl. Girl comes from the Middle English garl, but no one knows where that word came from. It used to mean a child of either sex, but now it's only used for female children, paired with the word boy.
n. 1. A female child. 2. A daughter: our youngest girl. 3. Often Offensive A woman. 4. Informal. a. A woman socializing with a group of women: a night out with the girls. b. Used as a familiar form of address to express support of or camaraderie with a woman. 5. Informal A female sweetheart: cadets escorting their girls to the ball. 6.
a female child or young woman: We have three children - a boy and two girls. Fewer examples. a girl with long, fair hair. a baby girl. a naughty little girl. Police are continuing their search for the missing girl. She's ever such a pretty girl.
Definition of 'girl' Word Frequency. girl. (gɜrl ) Word forms: plural girls. 1. countable noun. A girl is a female child. ...an eleven-year-old girl. Synonyms: female child, schoolgirl, lass, lassie [informal] More Synonyms of girl. 2. countable noun. You can refer to someone's daughter as a girl. We had a little girl. 3. countable noun.
Britannica Dictionary definition of GIRL. 1. [count] a : a female child. It's a girl! = She gave birth to a baby girl. a nine-year-old girl. Ever since I was a (little/young) girl, I've wanted to travel. b : daughter. Is this your little girl? She's our oldest/youngest girl. 2. [count] a : a young woman. a group of teenage girls.
Girls have been used historically, and are still used in some parts of the world, in settlements of disputes between families, through practices such as baad, swara, or vani. In such situations, a girl from a criminal's family is given to the victim's family as a servant or a bride.
