girl

noun

ˈgər(-ə)l How to pronounce girl (audio)
Definition of girlnext
1
as in maid
a young unmarried woman he's engaged to a girl that his parents really like

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2
as in filly
a female person who has not yet reached adulthood when I was a girl, I wanted a horse so badly

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3
as in girlfriend
a female romantic companion found an old letter by my grandfather asking my grandmother to be his girl

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Recent Examples of girl On that note, welcome to a Monday Nightcaps — the one where LPGA star Charley Hull dusts off her fall bikini and has a girls' weekend before getting back to the links. — Zach Dean Outkick, FOXNews.com, 12 Oct. 2026 Finally become the dark skin ICON my little girl eyes wanted to see. — Walden Green, Pitchfork, 12 Oct. 2026 The pair welcomed their first child together, a baby girl in June. — Alexandra Del Rosario, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2026 So, this year, the Black pop girls have done what Black folks always do — make a space where there is none. — Kyle Denis, Billboard, 12 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for girl
Recent Examples of Synonyms for girl
  1. maid
  2. filly
  3. girlfriend
  4. maiden
  5. lass
  6. woman
Noun
  • Adelaide said, with a vehemence that frightened Masha, the maid trying to spoon medicine into her clenched mouth.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 13 Oct. 2026
  • This is the kind of show where an opulent tea party is dramatized not just by many different plates of fancy pastries, fancy wreaths and lots of furniture, but by having all that stuff carted in by a dozen or so butlers, maids and other servants.
    — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 1 Oct. 2026
Definition of maid
Noun
  • Five older fillies and mares were entered in the 61/2-furlong sprint on the main track.
    — Bill Center, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Aug. 2026
  • The Alcibiades and Jessamine are also worth watching because both are for two-year-old fillies, meaning the field is making its first serious appearance on a big stage.
    — Jill Barth, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of filly
Noun
  • Police also picked up his girlfriend, actor Lekha Washington, and his cousin Zayn Marie Khan.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 15 Oct. 2026
  • With her immense popularity, Swift has drawn more viewers to the sport, and the NFL is trying to replicate that success with other star players’ wives and girlfriends.
    — Ryan Canfield OutKick, FOXNews.com, 15 Oct. 2026
Definition of girlfriend
Noun
  • There was a procession to the church of white clad handmaidens (tärnor), star boys (stjärngossar) and gingerbread men (pepparkaksgubbar) with candle wreaths on the maidens’ heads – now battery powered rather than actual flames.
    — Natasha Langan, TheWeek, 29 Sep. 2026
  • This second tale unfolds in an isolated cabin in the 1950s, as a lonely man on death’s door, Tom (Nick Nolte), a father in wait for his estranged daughter, finds an unconscious maiden, Alice (Caylee Cowan), outside in the snow.
    — Siddhant Adlakha, IndieWire, 8 Sep. 2026
Definition of maiden
Noun
  • The plot imperative of future Irina surviving to play a significant role in later seasons of For All Mankind gives us so much runway to imagine wild twists and turns for this crafty lass.
    — Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 10 July 2026
  • 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
Definition of lass
Noun
  • Forty years after two powerful men met in Reykjavík, three women—indeed, three world leaders—came together to continue the conversation.
    — Halla Tómasdóttir, Time, 16 Oct. 2026
  • The overwhelming majority of men and women will never hurt anyone.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 16 Oct. 2026
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“Girl.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/girl. Accessed 16 Oct. 2026.

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