girls

noun

plural of girl
1
as in maidens
a young unmarried woman he's engaged to a girl that his parents really like

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2
as in fillies
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 girlfriends
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 girls Two teenage girls spent months plotting a mass shooting in Riverside County, officials say. — Jack Dolan, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2026 The project at Trinity, an all-girls Roman Catholic school, ties into the church’s global initiatives to embrace environmental justice. — Cam'ron Hardy, Chicago Tribune, 22 Oct. 2026 Sheona said that the initial plan was for other Battle Ground girls to walk off the start line with Elise. — Matt Calkins Outkick, FOXNews.com, 22 Oct. 2026 While the Dream are chasing a historic championship, girls ages 7 to 17 got to fall in love with the game on Tuesday, chasing their own dreams on the court. — Joshua Cole, CBS News, 21 Oct. 2026 The series follows a group of misbehaving Catholic school girls who experience prophetic visions after a dance-team initiation goes wrong, triggering mass hysteria throughout their town. — Matt Grobar, Deadline, 21 Oct. 2026 For a generation of girls, Charli represented the ultimate social media success story. — Nancy Jo Sales, HollywoodReporter, 21 Oct. 2026 He was convicted in June of one count of rape, four counts of gross indecency and 13 indecent assault charges involving two girls between 1985 and 2008. — ABC News, 15 Oct. 2026 The press coverage essentially retrofitted 1692 with the anxieties of 1976, recasting the Salem girls as teenagers on a bad trip. — Jennifer Byrne, Popular Science, 15 Oct. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for girls
  1. maidens
  2. fillies
  3. girlfriends
  4. maids
  5. women
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
  • Ritual gifts include incense, flowers, perfume, cosmetics and soap, which Hor said are believed to bring beauty and charm after being blessed by the cowherd and seven maidens.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 19 Aug. 2026
Definition of maidens
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 fillies
Noun
  • Like many girlfriends throughout history, Marilyn wound up spending a lot of time with her boyfriend’s best friend.
    — Blake J. Harris, HollywoodReporter, 20 Oct. 2026
  • Both players, arrested in the offseason on charges tied to domestic abuse involving their girlfriends, remain the subjects of ongoing league investigations.
    — Armando Salguero OutKick, FOXNews.com, 16 Oct. 2026
Definition of girlfriends
Noun
  • 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
  • Jackson was particularly vocal in her criticism of the show’s shallow scripts, which featured plotlines about them going undercover as French maids, showgirls, lifeguards and, perhaps most infamously, prison inmates.
    — Michael Callahan, HollywoodReporter, 11 Sep. 2026
Definition of maids
Noun
  • Ne-Yo endeared himself to a legion of women bruised by the very men who’d eventually steer R&B into an era of lawlessness.
    — Clover Hope, Pitchfork, 25 Oct. 2026
  • People with chronic health conditions, pregnant women, young children and anyone 65 or older are at higher risk of developing complications from the flu, and Turner urged anyone fitting those categories to take extra precautions this season.
    — Mark Dee, Idaho Statesman, 24 Oct. 2026
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