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YOUNG GIRL
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A girl or young woman who is unmarried
Synonyms:
jeune fille; lass; lassie; young girl
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("young girl" is a kind of...):
fille; girl; miss; missy; young lady; young woman (a young female)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "young girl"):
bobby-socker; bobbysoxer (an adolescent girl wearing bobby socks (common in the 1940s))
Lolita (a sexually precocious young girl)
Context examples:
Any young girl can imagine Amy's state of mind when she 'took the stage' that night, leaning on Laurie's arm.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
She had, while a very young girl, as soon as she had known him to be, in the event of her having no brother, the future baronet, meant to marry him, and her father had always meant that she should.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
Of Mr. Rochester's character I know nothing, but the one fact that he professed to offer honourable marriage to this young girl, and that at the very altar she discovered he had a wife yet alive, though a lunatic.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
She has had to take care of herself, and a young girl can't take care of herself and keep her eyes soft and gentle like—like yours, for example.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
The words were hardly out of her mouth when the godless crew returned, dragging another young girl along with them.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
The young girl spoke in high and enthusiastic terms of her mother, who, born in freedom, spurned the bondage to which she was now reduced.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
She tried not to be envious or discontented, but it was very natural that the young girl should long for pretty things, gay friends, accomplishments, and a happy life.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
He said, these births were so rare, that he did not believe there could be above eleven hundred struldbrugs, of both sexes, in the whole kingdom; of which he computed about fifty in the metropolis, and, among the rest, a young girl born; about three years ago: that these productions were not peculiar to any family, but a mere effect of chance; and the children of the struldbrugs themselves were equally mortal with the rest of the people.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Behold, in example I grieve my heart out for that so sweet young girl; I give my blood for her, though I am old and worn; I give my time, my skill, my sleep; I let my other sufferers want that so she may have all.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Cheerful along with me; retired when others is by; fond of going any distance fur to teach a child, or fur to tend a sick person, or fur to do some kindness tow'rds a young girl's wedding (and she's done a many, but has never seen one); fondly loving of her uncle; patient; liked by young and old; sowt out by all that has any trouble.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
