Girl

Noun

 * 1) A young female (in contrast to boy), usually a child or adolescent.
 * ''Amanda is a girl of 16.
 * 1) Any woman, regardless of her age.  See usage notes.
 * 2) A female servant; a maid.  See usage notes.
 * 3)  A boy with girl-like qualities, especially squeamishness.
 * Stop being such a girl and punch back.
 * 1)  A queen (the playing card.)
 * 2)  A term of endearment.  See usage notes.
 * 3) a girlfriend.
 * I'm going to meet my girl over there.''
 * 1) a daughter.
 * Your girl turned up on our doorstep.

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:girl

Derived terms

 * attagirl
 * B-girl
 * baby girl
 * ball girl
 * bar girl
 * big girl's blouse
 * birthday girl
 * Bond girl
 * boys and girls
 * bunny girl
 * busgirl
 * business girl
 * call girl
 * career girl
 * choir girl
 * college girl
 * comfort girl
 * cover girl
 * cowgirl
 * dancing girl
 * daygirl
 * diamonds are a girl's best friend
 * dirty girl
 * Essex girl
 * flower girl
 * fluff girl
 * gal
 * girl band
 * girl-boy
 * girl Friday
 * girl friend/girlfriend
 * girl group
 * Girl Guides
 * Girl Scouts
 * girl power


 * girl talk
 * girl wonder
 * girlcott
 * girlhood
 * girlie
 * girlish
 * girly
 * girlie girl
 * girly girl
 * golden girl
 * hello girl
 * homegirl
 * It girl
 * Jersey girl
 * little girl
 * newsgirl
 * nautch girl
 * old girl
 * paper girl
 * party girl
 * poster girl
 * pot-girl
 * ring girl
 * salesgirl
 * sarong party girl
 * schoolgirl
 * shopgirl
 * showgirl
 * sky girl
 * slave-girl
 * street girl
 * sweater girl
 * the girl next door
 * valley girl
 * working girl
 * young girl

Adjectives for Girl
sylvan; docile; unaffected; much-courted; cuddlesome; dear; delightful; stricken; robust; athletic; country; serving; frowzy; wishy-washy; tawdry; expensive; clumsy; urgent; watchful; passionate; anserine; adolescent; elegant; slim; confiding; artful; sensible; true; scrawny; giddy; sweet; gentle; beautiful; ornamental; casual; suitable; frail; sympathetic; light; colored; timbrel; ambitious; radiant; exotic; truthful; semi-wild; utilitarian; blushing; alluring; unregulated; debilitated; loitering; singsong; impecunious; trembling; dependent; sullen; charming; pluckiest; dainty; sober; uneducated; freckle-faced; worthless; industrious; ridiculous; swarthy; sophisticated; vigorous; decent; virtuous; enthusiastic; patrician; perverse; unruly; willful; flippant; comely; awkward; sad; shiftless; peevish; commonplace; emotional; suicidal; coquettish.

Verbs for Girl
betroth—; bud into—; consort with —s; — beguiles; —blushes; —charms; —dances; — giggles; —loves; —lures; —mystifies; — pouts; —prates; —smiles; —sulks.

Thesaurus
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 thing

Etymology
Middle English gyrle: ‘young person’, diminutive of (cf. Low German Gör:, Norwegian dialect gorre:, Swedish dialect garre:, gurre:), from  ‘short’ (compare Old Irish gair:, Ancient Greek χρεώ:, χρήσθαι:, Sanskrit ह्रस्व:).

Translations

 * Afrikaans: meisie
 * Albanian:
 * Aleut: asxinux
 * Arabic:, فتاة
 * Armenian:
 * Aromanian:
 * Azeri:
 * Bashkir:
 * Basque: neska
 * Belarusian: дзяўчына
 * Breton: plac'h, plac'hed ; note: after article in the singular, this is plac'h rather than'' blac'h
 * Bulgarian: девойка, ,
 * Catalan: noia, nena , xiqueta, al·lota
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, , 女孩子, , ,
 * Chiricahua: ’it’éeké, jeekȩ́n
 * Czech:, ,
 * Danish:
 * Darkinjung:
 * Dutch:, , , ,
 * Eshtehardi:
 * Esperanto:, , junulino
 * Estonian: ,
 * Ewe: nyɔnuvi
 * Faroese:
 * Filipino: (of any age), batang babae (child),  (adolescent or older and unmarried)
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: κόρη
 * Greenlandic:
 * Guaraní: kuñataĩ, mitãkuña
 * Hausa: yarinya
 * Hebrew: ,
 * Hiligaynon: (of any age),  (adolescent or older and unmarried)
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: stúlka, stelpa, telpa
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian: anak perempuan
 * Interlingua: puera
 * Irish:
 * Italian: bambina ; ragazza
 * Japanese:, ,
 * Jicarilla: ch’eekéé
 * Kamba:
 * Kazakh:
 * Kikuyu:
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Latin:, pura, puera, adolescens
 * Latvian: meitene
 * Lithuanian:, mergaitė


 * Livonian: neitški
 * Luganda: omuwala
 * Luo:
 * Malayalam: പെണ്‍കുട്ടി
 * Manchu: gege
 * Maori: hine
 * Marathi: मुल्गी
 * Meru:
 * Navajo: atʼééd
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: jente, pike
 * Nynorsk: jente/jenta
 * Novial: puera
 * Old English: ,
 * Pashto: ,
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: menina, garotinha , meninota , menininha , puela ; garota , moça , rapariga , jovem , mocinha , moçoila
 * Punjabi: ਕੁੜੀ (kuṛī)
 * Romani: raklyi, shej
 * Romanian: fată, copilă
 * Russian:, ,
 * Sanskrit:
 * Scots: lassie
 * Scottish Gaelic: caileag (child), nighean  (child, adolescent), nighneag/nìonag  (child)
 * Serbo-Croatian: девојка, дјевојка, devojka, djevojka
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish: child,  teens or twenties,  teens or twenties
 * Sumerian:
 * Swahili:, mwari
 * Swedish:, , ,
 * Tagalog: (of any age), batang babae (child),  (adolescent or older and unmarried)
 * Tajik:
 * Taos: upę̀yu’úna
 * Telugu: అమ్మాయి,, బాలిక, పిల్ల
 * Thai: เด็กผู้หญิง, เด็กหญิง
 * Tupinambá: kunhãta'ĩ ; kunhãmuku
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: дівчина
 * Urdu: لڑکی
 * Uyghur: قىز
 * Vietnamese: cô gái,, gái
 * Volapük: pul, jipul,  jicil
 * Welsh: ,
 * West Frisian: famke ,
 * Western Apache: at’eedn, at’een, it’eedn, it’een, it’éédn, it’één, na’ilín (-na’ilį’), it’ídé ("girls")
 * Yiddish: מיידל, מיידלעך


 * Breton: gwreg, merc'h
 * Darkinjung:
 * Esperanto:
 * Ewe: nyɔnu
 * Filipino:, (adolescent or older and unmarried)
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: Frau
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: אישה (eesha), בחורה (bahura) , עלמה (almah)
 * Hiligaynon: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Japanese:


 * Kurdish:
 * Malayalam: പെണ്ണ്, സ്ത്രീ
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Persian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romani: zhulyi, gazhi , romnyi
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: bean, nighean
 * Tagalog:, (adolescent or older and unmarried)
 * Telugu: అమ్మాయి (ammAyi)
 * Welsh: ,


 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian: ,


 * Icelandic: ,
 * Irish:
 * Persian: کلفت
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: ban-òglach
 * Slovene:


 * Filipino:
 * Finnish:


 * Hiligaynon:
 * Tagalog:


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Anagrams

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