as in girls
a female person who has not yet reached adulthood
she's still a filly, so she has plenty of time to decide what she wants to do in life
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Recent Examples of fillies
The Kentucky Oaks, a slightly shorter race exclusively for fillies on the Friday before the Kentucky Derby, will air in primetime this year in an attempt to draw more viewers.
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Lev Akabas, Sportico.com, 8 Apr. 2026
Baffert also has two fillies in Saturday’s Grade 2 Santa Anita Oaks, Forced Entry (4-1) and French Blue (5-1), as does Michael McCarthy, who won last year’s Santa Anita Derby with Journalism.
—Jay Posner, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2026
Thurby, a celebration of Kentucky’s heritage featuring live entertainment; and the Kentucky Oaks, a race for 3-year-old fillies (female horses).
—Chase Jordan
february 13, Charlotte Observer, 13 Feb. 2026
Never farther back than second in the mile run for 2-year-old fillies, Just Aloof pulled away in the stretch under Hector Berrios to win by 2 ½ lengths over Latte Luv.
—Bill Center, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Nov. 2025
The $80,000 Swingtime Stakes matches a large field of fillies and mares seeking their first stakes win in 2025.
—Kevin Modesti, Oc Register, 12 Oct. 2025
Lev Akabas, Sportico.com, 8 Apr. 2026
Baffert also has two fillies in Saturday’s Grade 2 Santa Anita Oaks, Forced Entry (4-1) and French Blue (5-1), as does Michael McCarthy, who won last year’s Santa Anita Derby with Journalism.
—Jay Posner, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2026
Thurby, a celebration of Kentucky’s heritage featuring live entertainment; and the Kentucky Oaks, a race for 3-year-old fillies (female horses).
—Chase Jordan
february 13, Charlotte Observer, 13 Feb. 2026
Never farther back than second in the mile run for 2-year-old fillies, Just Aloof pulled away in the stretch under Hector Berrios to win by 2 ½ lengths over Latte Luv.
—Bill Center, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Nov. 2025
The $80,000 Swingtime Stakes matches a large field of fillies and mares seeking their first stakes win in 2025.
—Kevin Modesti, Oc Register, 12 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fillies
Noun
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The problem with that is that changing your life, and really believing, is so much harder than, for example, smoking weed and dancing with girls at a party.—
Rafaela Bassili,
Vulture,
13 Apr. 2026
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This week's hearing, which could produce the most extensive public comment from the all-girls Christian camp's operators, comes amid their application for a state license to reopen Camp Mystic this summer on a part of campus that did not flood.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
13 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Laborious yet lithe lads and lasses have loyally leapt to luminate the lexical labyrinths of logic locking the lucrative lotto, longing to lure the lavish luxury lying latently in local landmarks.—
Jared Kaufman,
Twin Cities,
28 Jan. 2026
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Hear ye, hear ye, good lords and lasses!—
Teri Sforza,
Oc Register,
22 Oct. 2025
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“Fillies.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fillies. Accessed 19 Apr. 2026.
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