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Girl

noun

A young woman. Synonyms: fille, miss, missy, young lady, young woman.

A youthful female person. Synonyms: female child, little girl. "The girls were just learning to ride a tricycle" Antonyms: male child, boy.

A female human offspring. Synonym: daughter. Antonyms: son, boy.

A girl or young woman with whom a man is romantically involved. Synonyms: girlfriend, lady friend.

A friendly informal reference to a grown woman.

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"Girl" Quotes from Famous Books

... the high tide covered all the land, Making the pier a sea, the street a strand, And when the boat cast anchor at my threshold, Then from her home the little girl came forth Half bare, half clad, robed in the robe of light In a swift dancing flood that revelled full Of water-lust and crowns of ...

— Life Immovable - First Part • Kostes Palamas

... into three classes; the young girl you address as "tee-tee"; the young person as "seester"; the more mature charmer as "mammy"; but I do not advise you to employ these terms when you are on your first visit, because you might get misunderstood. For, you see, by addressing a mammy as seester, she might ...

— Travels in West Africa • Mary H. Kingsley

... with me," she pleaded. "You will understand it all fully some day. I may be an odd sort of girl, but I can't help it- -I am simply ...

— The Desired Woman • Will N. Harben

... of most women; but it was a sign of Mrs. Leath's quality that every movement, every syllable, told with her. Even in the old days, as an intent grave-eyed girl, she had seldom misplaced her light strokes; and Darrow, on meeting her again, had immediately felt how much finer and surer an instrument of ...

— The Reef • Edith Wharton

... the late king to perish to save your other children," said Albert de Gondi. "Do, then, as the great signors of Constantinople do,—divert the anger and amuse the caprices of the present king. He loves art and poetry and hunting, also a little girl he saw at Orleans; there's ...

— Catherine de' Medici • Honore de Balzac

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