girl
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
girl/ɡɜːl/
▶noun
- 1 a female child.
- 2 a young or relatively young woman.
■ (girls) informal women who mix socially or belong to a group.
■ a person's girlfriend.
- 3 dated a female servant.
– derivatives
girlhood noun,
girlish adjective,
girlishly adverb,
girlishness noun.
girlhood noun,
girlish adjective,
girlishly adverb,
girlishness noun.
– origin ME (denoting a child or young person of either sex): perh. rel. to Low Ger. gör ‘child’.
'girl' also found in these Oxford entries:
adolescent
- amaryllis
- baby-doll
- bachelor girl
- baggage
- ballboy
- bat mitzvah
- bayadère
- belle
- besom
- bint
- bit
- bitty
- blouse
- bobby-soxer
- bridesmaid
- brunette
- bunch
- bunny
- call girl
- chaperone
- chit
- choirboy
- chorine
- chorus girl
- Cinderella
- circumcise
- colleen
- curtsy
- dancing girl
- daughter
- day boy
- dirndl
- dress
- duchess
- English rose
- fille de joie
- filly
- finish
- fizgig
- flirt
- floozy
- frock
- gal
- gamine
- gasket
- gel
- Gibson girl
- gig
