as in girl
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 filly
Always a Runner won the 152nd edition of the Kentucky Oaks on Friday night, the first time the race for top 3-year-old fillies has been run under the lights in prime time at Churchill Downs.
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Stephen Whyno, Chicago Tribune, 2 May 2026
The day before the Kentucky Derby each year is known as Ladies’ Day, with several stakes races for fillies and mares, highlighted by the Kentucky Oaks.
—Jay Posner, Los Angeles Times, 2 May 2026
This is the premier stage for three-year-old fillies.
—Geoff Clark Outkick, FOXNews.com, 1 May 2026
Should any additional horses scratch, the Oaks will run with less than a full field of 14 fillies.
—Teresa Genaro, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2026
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Stephen Whyno, Chicago Tribune, 2 May 2026
The day before the Kentucky Derby each year is known as Ladies’ Day, with several stakes races for fillies and mares, highlighted by the Kentucky Oaks.
—Jay Posner, Los Angeles Times, 2 May 2026
This is the premier stage for three-year-old fillies.
—Geoff Clark Outkick, FOXNews.com, 1 May 2026
Should any additional horses scratch, the Oaks will run with less than a full field of 14 fillies.
—Teresa Genaro, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for filly
Noun
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Teen Choice Awards for her time as iconic mean girl Blair Waldorf on Gossip Girl?—
Joe Reid,
Vulture,
29 May 2026
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Hester referred to Suski signing onto a friend of the court brief in support of a suit challenging West Virginia's law banning transgender girls from competing on female high school or college teams.—
Ryan Anderson,
Arkansas Online,
29 May 2026
Noun
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Oh Outlander fam, for old times’ sake, let’s get in one last sing me a song of a lass that is gone, say could that lass be I?—
Maggie Fremont,
Vulture,
15 May 2026
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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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“Filly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/filly. Accessed 1 Jun. 2026.
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