Thesaurus results for GIRLS

girls

noun

plural of girl

as in maidens

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

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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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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 The Red Sea Running Club, a team of Tavares Middle School and elementary school girls, once again beat high school teams to win the girls team title in Lake Mary’s Summertime Run preseason meet. — Buddy Collings, The Orlando Sentinel, 20 Aug. 2026 The time-hopping horror-drama follows members of a high school girls’ soccer team across two timelines. — Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 20 Aug. 2026 Created by Ashley Lyle and Bart Nickerson, Yellowjackets is the saga of a team of wildly talented high school girls soccer players who become the (un)lucky survivors of a plane crash deep in the remote northern wilderness. — Denise Petski, Deadline, 20 Aug. 2026 Fans are showing up to games wearing t-shirts supporting trans women, and shirts from the XX-XY brand built around excluding trans girls from girls’ sports. — Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 20 Aug. 2026 Now, more than a decade later, Van Wagoner and nearly 150 other girls will inspire the next generation at the Super Girl Surf Festival, an event now in its 20th year. — Laylan Connelly, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Aug. 2026 Mater Dei’s girls basketball team has added a second major transfer. — Dan Albano, Oc Register, 20 Aug. 2026 Nearby, Americans in their sixties and seventies drunkenly solicit girls who barely look of age. — Mattha Busby, Rolling Stone, 19 Aug. 2026 Joanna Gaines shared a rare video of her two daughters Ella, 19, and Emmie, 16, from their girls’ trip to England on August 18. — Lara Walsh, InStyle, 19 Aug. 2026

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Noun

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
Many fans thought the original covers of Pratchett’s novels went too heavy on busty maidens and strapping men with big swords, undermining their literary merit, and a similar problem has beset the various screen adaptations from Sky and the BBC.

— Helen Lewis, The Atlantic, 24 May 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

Her biggest challenges seemed to be getting the rest of the NBA to take her seriously after previously partying with her father’s girlfriends and posing nude for Playboy magazine.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 19 Aug. 2026
Here’s a look at a few of the WAGs — wives and girlfriends — who will be cheering on Chiefs players this season.

— Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 15 Aug. 2026

Definition of girlfriends

Noun

Lee takes early meetings at a nearby hotel that could be in any country, except that the room service is delivered by robots painted in the livery of butlers and maids.

— Evan Osnos, New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2026
The unsightly mushroom could have corrupted her maids’ morals, or even their health.

— Leah Hudson, Popular Science, 9 July 2026

Definition of maids

Noun

None of these ideas were invented by Instagram or by women alone; the concept of the attention economy dates to the early 1970s, and the notion that no press is bad press has existed since the 19th century.

— Laura Jung, Vogue, 25 Aug. 2026
A lot of it was gate-kept, especially from women, and tailored toward men.

— Matt Egan, CNN Money, 25 Aug. 2026

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