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GIRL
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A female human offspring
Example:
her daughter cared for her in her old age
Synonyms:
daughter; girl
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("girl" is a kind of...):
female offspring (a child who is female)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "girl"):
mother's daughter (a daughter who is favored by and similar to her mother)
Antonym:
boy (a male human offspring)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A youthful female person
Example:
the girls were just learning to ride a tricycle
Synonyms:
female child; girl; little girl
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("girl" is a kind of...):
female; female person (a person who belongs to the sex that can have babies)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "girl"):
Campfire Girl (a girl who is a member of Campfire Girls; for girls age 7-18)
farm girl (a girl who has grown up on a farm)
flower girl (a young girl who carries flowers in a (wedding) procession)
moppet (a little girl (usually one you are fond of))
schoolgirl (a girl attending school)
Scout (a Boy Scout or Girl Scout)
Antonym:
boy (a youthful male person)
Derivation:
girlhood (the childhood of a girl)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A young female
Example:
a young lady of 18
Synonyms:
fille; girl; miss; missy; young lady; young woman
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("girl" is a kind of...):
adult female; woman (an adult female person (as opposed to a man))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "girl"):
mill-girl (a girl who works in a mill)
party girl (an attractive young woman hired to attend parties and entertain men)
peri (a beautiful and graceful girl)
ring girl (a young woman who holds up cards indicating the number of the next round at prize fights)
rosebud ((a literary reference to) a pretty young girl)
sex bomb; sex kitten; sexpot (a young woman who is thought to have sex appeal)
shop girl (a young female shop assistant)
soubrette (a pert or flirtatious young girl)
sweater girl (a girl with an attractive bust who wears tight sweaters)
hoyden; romp; tomboy (a girl who behaves in a boyish manner)
valley girl (a girl who grew up in the tract housing in the San Fernando Valley)
working girl (a young woman who is employed)
May queen; queen of the May (the girl chosen queen of a May Day festival)
maid; maiden (an unmarried girl (especially a virgin))
jeune fille; lass; lassie; young girl (a girl or young woman who is unmarried)
Gibson girl (the idealized American girl of the 1890s as pictured by C. D. Gibson)
gamine (a girl of impish appeal)
gal (alliterative term for girl (or woman))
flapper (a young woman in the 1920s who flaunted her unconventional conduct and dress)
bird; chick; dame; doll; skirt; wench (informal terms for a (young) woman)
colleen (an Irish girl)
chit (a dismissive term for a girl who is immature or who lacks respect)
chachka; tchotchke; tchotchkeleh; tsatske; tshatshke ((Yiddish) an attractive, unconventional woman)
bimbo (a young woman indulged by rich and powerful older men)
belle (a young woman who is the most charming and beautiful of several rivals)
Derivation:
girlhood (the childhood of a girl)
Sense 4
Meaning:
A friendly informal reference to a grown woman
Example:
Mrs. Smith was just one of the girls
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("girl" is a kind of...):
adult female; woman (an adult female person (as opposed to a man))
Sense 5
Meaning:
A girl or young woman with whom a man is romantically involved
Example:
his girlfriend kicked him out
Synonyms:
girl; girlfriend; lady friend
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("girl" is a kind of...):
lover (a person who loves someone or is loved by someone)
adult female; woman (an adult female person (as opposed to a man))
Context examples:
She never changed to her foolish Peggotty, didn't my sweet girl.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Growling savagely, White Fang sprang out of the corner, overturning the boy and the girl.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
He has already had one or two little wives, but Louisa Biron is his favourite, a pretty little girl of five years of age.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
These tumors usually occur in teenage girls or young women, usually affect just one ovary, and can be benign (not cancer) or malignant (cancer).
(Ovarian germ cell tumor, NCI Dictionary)
In young girls it may present with pseudoprecocity.
(Juvenile Type Ovarian Granulosa Cell Tumor, NCI Thesaurus)
A disorder of neutrophils characterized by the presence of abnormal or absent chemotactic responses and hyperimmunoglobulinemia E. It is transmitted as an autosomal recessive trait and most cases reported have been in girls.
(Hyperimmunoglobulin E Syndrome, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
In 2004, Dr. Raphaela Goldbach-Mansky of NIH’s National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS) examined a 10-year-old girl who had signs of systemic inflammation, especially in the blood vessels.
(Gene linked to rare inflammatory disease in children, NIH)
HRV thus replicated unchecked in the girl’s respiratory tract, causing severe illness.
(Scientists discover rare genetic susceptibility to common cold, National Institutes of Health)
The researchers also noted the girl's father, though Denisovan, had a trace of Neanderthal DNA, from perhaps as much as several hundred generations earlier.
(Fossil genome shows hybrid of two extinct species of human, Wikinews)
A girl or woman who is the lover of a boy or man.
(Girlfriend, NCI Thesaurus)
