girl
NounUS[gurl]/ɡɝl/1 syllable
Open English WordNet
Noun (5)girls
- a young female“a young lady of 18”Synonyms: missmissyyoung ladyyoung womanfilleType of female, female personKinds lass, maid, Gibson girl, dame, working girl, flapper, belle, May queen, rosebud, party girl +21 more
- a youthful female person“the baby was a girl”“the girls were just learning to ride a tricycle”Synonyms: female childlittle girlOpposite male childType of female, female personKinds schoolgirl, moppet, flower girl, Girl Scout, Campfire Girl, farm girl, flower boy
- a female human offspring“her daughter cared for her in her old age”Synonyms: daughterOpposite sonType of female offspringKinds mother's daughter
- a girl or young woman with whom a man is romantically involved“his girlfriend kicked him out”Synonyms: girlfriendlady friendType of woman, lover
- a friendly informal reference to a grown woman“Mrs. Smith was just one of the girls”Type of woman, adult female
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Translations
Noun young female person
- Spanish
- niña
- French
- fille
- German
- Mädchen
- Italian
- ragazza
- Portuguese
- menina
- Turkish
- kız
- Russian
- де́вочка dévočka
- Arabic
- بِنْت bint
- Chinese
- 女孩子 nǚháizi
- Japanese
- 少女 shōjo
36 more languages
- Dutch
- meisje
- Polish
- dziewczyna
- Swedish
- flicka
- Greek
- κορίτσι korítsi
- Korean
- 소녀 sonyeo
- Indonesian
- gadis
- Vietnamese
- cô gái
- Hungarian
- lány
- Portuguese (PT)
- menina
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 女孩子 nǚháizi
- Albanian
- vajzë
- Breton
- plac'h
- Catalan
- noia
- Corsican
- zitella
- Czech
- dívka
- Danish
- pige
- Esperanto
- knabino
- Estonian
- tüdruk
- Finnish
- tyttö
- Georgian
- გოგო gogo
- Hebrew
- יַלְדָּה yaldá
- Icelandic
- stelpa
- Kurdish
- keç
- Latvian
- meitene
- Lithuanian
- mergaitė
- Malagasy
- tovovavy
- Norwegian
- jente
- Romanian
- fată
- Scottish Gaelic
- caileag
- Serbo-Croatian
- djevojka
- Slovak
- dievča
- Slovenian
- dekle
- Swahili
- msichana
- Walloon
- feye
- Welsh
- geneth
- Yiddish
- מיידל meydl
Noun young woman
The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Girl (gẽrl), noun
Origin: OE. girle, gerle, gurle, a girl (in sense 1): cf. LG. gör child.
1. A young person of either sex; a child. obsolete Geoffrey Chaucer
2. A female child, from birth to the age of puberty; a young maiden.
3. A female servant; a maidservant. US
4. Zoology A roebuck two years old. dialect (England)
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54
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