Synonyms of girls

girls

noun

plural of girl

1

as in maidens

a young unmarried woman

he's engaged to a girl that his parents really like

Synonyms & Similar Words

• maidens
• maids
• virgins
• damsels
• sisters
• fillies
• demoiselles
• misses
• birds
• debutantes
• lasses
• debs
• ingenues
• lassies
• senoritas
• colleens
• sheilas
• chits
• mademoiselles
• senhoritas

2

as in fillies

a female person who has not yet reached adulthood

when I was a girl, I wanted a horse so badly

Synonyms & Similar Words

• fillies
• lasses
• nymphs
• lassies
• pixies
• missies
• misses
• sheilas
• schoolgirls
• teenyboppers
• tomboys
• junior misses
• bobby-soxers
• romps
• hoydens
• gamines
• subdebutantes
• snips

3

as in girlfriends

a female romantic companion

found an old letter by my grandfather asking my grandmother to be his girl

Synonyms & Similar Words

• girlfriends
• women
• gals
• ladies
• lovers
• mistresses
• gills
• ladyloves
• old ladies
• inamoratas
• sweethearts
• valentines
• sweets
• flames
• favorites
• molls
• dears
• significant others
• darlings
• loves
• honeys
• beloveds

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of girls

Heavy curtain up; the moaning of sentimental strings; lights rising on some wedges and rectangles of scenery, guys and girls, the guys practically naked save for bits and pieces of neo-Greek get-up. — Literary Hub, 10 Sep. 2026

Kirk often receives messages from girls who have made videos about her or attend matches with her name on their shirts. — Katie Whyatt, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2026

Interviewees describe hacking little girls’ phones to see when their fathers came home and then bombing their houses, listening while the people on the line screamed and pleaded for help, while mothers cried over their burning daughters. — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 10 Sep. 2026

Last month, her inaugural Daisy Chain Fields music festival, which featured an all-women lineup, raised $20 million for 10 organizations supporting women and girls. — Brittney Melton, NPR, 10 Sep. 2026

Thanks to their magical abilities, potions, and supernatural powers, these girls solve crime, disappearances, burglaries and much more. — Kevin Giraud, Variety, 10 Sep. 2026

The researchers also looked at a separate group of 1,210 girls who were followed from infancy to adolescence and whose mothers had reported paracetamol use during pregnancy. — Nancy Lapid, USA Today, 10 Sep. 2026

Rosales knows that she’s created an unusual digital space, one where women and girls are celebrated without being hypersexualized. — Myriam Gurba, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2026

However, that same year, Little League Softball was founded, which steered girls away from baseball and reinforced the gendered split of the two sports. — Callie Maddox, The Conversation, 9 Sep. 2026