1
[ noun ] a young woman

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 .

2
[ noun ] a youthful female person

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 .

3
[ noun ] a female human offspring

Synonyms

daughter

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 !

4
[ noun ] a girl or young woman with whom a man is romantically involved

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 .

Related terms

woman lover

5
[ 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

woman

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