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

Those sports are football, basketball, track and field, soccer and baseball for boys and fast-pitch softball, volleyball, basketball, track and field and soccer for girls. — Chip Saye, AJC.com, 30 July 2026

The United Nations has issued a warning about an alarming surge in women and girls being raped in Haiti, many of them homeless after being forced out of their homes and neighborhoods by armed gangs. — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 30 July 2026

Biological girls, biological boys, trans women, and trans men. — Jackson Thompson Outkick, FOXNews.com, 30 July 2026

The new series, too, features a law-enforcement culture where disinterest in gendered violence is the norm, and cops knowingly patronize establishments that traffic underage girls. — Inkoo Kang, New Yorker, 30 July 2026

There were, for a time, four kids sleeping in the great room — the two boys up in a loft, the two girls on the main floor below — and everyone shared a bathroom. — Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 30 July 2026

Investigators recovered images and video recordings of at least eight underage girls. — Joseph Buczek, CBS News, 30 July 2026

This prevented Lopez Insua from seeing a sailboat carrying a 19-year-old counselor and five girls, ranging in age from 7 to 13, from a nearby sailing camp that had lost wind and stalled in the tugboat’s path, investigators said. — ABC News, 23 July 2026

Over four months after the deadly US bombing of the Shajareh Tayyebeh girls’ school in Southern Iran, which killed 120 children and dozens of teachers and parents, questions still remain over how the horror unfolded. — Joe Wilkins, Futurism, 23 July 2026