lasses

noun

plural of lass
as in girls
a female person who has not yet reached adulthood she started riding on horseback when she was only a lass

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Recent Examples of lasses 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 Hear ye, hear ye, good lords and lasses! — Teri Sforza, Oc Register, 22 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for lasses
  1. girls
  2. fillies
Noun
  • The demographic is broad, with multiple generations shopping together, and some young girls buying fabric for their first sewing projects.
    — Samantha Conti, Footwear News, 23 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, ABC News, 23 July 2026
Definition of girls
Noun
  • The other stakes on the card are a pair of ungraded, $100,000 turf tests for older fillies and mares — the 1-mile Osunitas Stakes (third race) and the five-furlong Daisycutter Stakes (ninth race).
    — Bill Center, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 July 2026
  • This day in sports history 1946 — Two-year-old fillies Chakoora and Uleta become the first thoroughbreds to complete a transcontinental flight.
    — Assistant Sports Editor, Los Angeles Times, 29 May 2026
Definition of fillies

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