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girl noun [ ɡəːl ]

• a female child.
• "a six-year-old girl"
Similar: female child, young person, youngster, teenager, adolescent, young woman, young lady, juvenile, minor, junior, student, schoolgirl, daughter, lass, lassie, bairn, pickney, kid, kiddie, tot, brat, chit,
• a young or relatively young woman.
• "I haven't got the time to meet girls"
Similar: young woman, young lady, miss, lass, lassie, colleen, mademoiselle, signorina, señorita, Fräulein, babe, chick, girly, filly, bird, gal, Jane, sister, sheila, bint, mare, Judy, popsy, frail, broad, dame, maid, maiden, damsel, demoiselle, wench,
Origin: Middle English (denoting a child or young person of either sex): perhaps related to Low German gör ‘child’.

one of the girls

• a woman who is an accepted or integral member of a female social group.
"she just wants to be one of the girls"

that's my girl!

• used as an expression of encouragement or admiration to a girl or young woman.
"Thorn gave me an approving look. ‘That's my girl!’"



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