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[ noun ] a young woman
Synonyms Examples "a young lady of 18" Used in print ("Editorials"...)`` If the day should ever come that foreign invaders swarm ashore along the Gulf_Coast '' , the account reads , `` they can count_on heavy opposition from a group of commando trained telephone employees - all girls . The girls , very fetching in their uniforms , are shown firing rockets from a launcher mounted on a dump_truck ; they are also trained with carbines , automatic weapons , pistols , rifles and other such ladies ' accessories . (The Providence Journal...)The answers the girls give struck me as reasonably varied and healthily individual . To anyone who remembers Newport at its less_than maximum violence , this view of what the boys and girls do in the springtime before they wing north for the Jazz_Festival ought to prove entertaining . (Bonnie Prudden, "The Dancer and the Gymnast"...)They were further stripped of old_wives'_tales by seeing the slender , lovely Russian girls performing feats requiring tremendous strength - and with not one bulging muscle . |
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[ noun ] a youthful female person
Synonyms Examples "the baby was a girl" "the girls were just learning to ride a tricycle" Used in print (William G. Pollard, Physicist and Christian....)A teenage girl , Abigail_Williams , is being sharply questioned by her minister uncle , the Reverend_Samuel_Parris , about a wild night affair in the woods in which she and some other girls had seemed to have had contact with these evil beings . A teenage girl , Abigail_Williams , is being sharply questioned by her minister uncle , the Reverend_Samuel_Parris , about a wild night affair in the woods in which she and some other girls had seemed to have had contact with these evil beings . (Jack Kaplan, "The Health Machine Menace: Therapy by...)He then sold her minerals to cure her kidney ailment , a can of sage `` to make her look_like a girl again '' , and an application of plain mud to take her wrinkles away . (Howard Nemerov, "Themes and Methods: The Early...)At_the_same_time the multiple transvestitism involved - the fat man as girl and as baby , as coquette pretending to be a baby - touches for a moment horrifyingly upon the secret sources of a life like Jacoby 's , upon the sinister dreams which form the sources of any human life . (S. Idell Pyle, et al., Onsets, Completions, and...)First , the Onset Profile spreads across approximately 12 years for boys and 10 years for girls . |
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[ noun ] a female human offspring
Synonyms Examples "her daughter cared for her in her old age" Used in print (Irving Fineman, Woman of Valor: The Life of Henrietta...)Mr._March , like Benjamin_Szold , was a clergyman , although of an indeterminate denomination ; and `` Marmee '' March , like Sophie_Szold , was the competent manager of her brood of girls , of whom the Marches had only four to the Szolds ' five . But the March girls had their counterparts in the Szold girls . But the March girls had their counterparts in the Szold girls . Bertha_Szold was more like Meg , the eldest March girl , who `` learned that a woman 's happiest kingdom is home , her highest honor the art of ruling it , not as a queen , but a wise wife and mother '' . She wrote gay plays about the girls for family entertainments , like `` Oh_,_What_Fun ! Related terms |
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[ noun ] a girl or young woman with whom a man is romantically involved
Synonyms Examples "his girlfriend kicked him out" Used in print (Bell I. Wiley, "Home Letters of Johnny Reb and Billy...)A Yankee sergeant gave the following description of his sweetheart : `` My girl is none of your one-horse girls . |
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[ noun ] a friendly informal reference to a grown woman
Examples "Mrs. Smith was just one of the girls" Used in print (Frieda Arkin, "The Light of the Sea," in The...)`` I imagine the old girl has n't missed us much '' , Mark added , his eyes on the road . Related terms |
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