girl
English dictionary entry
Meanings
noun
- A female child.
- A woman, especially a young and often attractive woman.
- A term of address to a female (see usage notes)
- One's girlfriend.
- One's daughter.
- A female friend.
- A female non-human animal, especially, in affectionate address, a female pet, especially a dog.
- A female (tree, gene, etc).
- A machine or vehicle, especially one that the speaker uses often and is fond of.
- A female servant; a maid. (see usage notes)
- Cocaine, especially in powder form.
- A queen (the playing card).
verb
- To feminize or girlify; to gender as a girl or as for girls.
- To staff with or as a girl or girls.
name
- A Chinese constellation located near Aquarius, one of the 28 lunar mansions and part of the Black Turtle.
Pronunciation
/ˈɡɜːl/
/ˈɡɛəl/
/ˈɡɪəl/
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/ˈɡɜɹl/
[ˈɡɝəɫ]
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/ˈɡøːl/
[ˈɡʏw]
/ˈɡɪɾəl/
[ˈɡɪɾəɫ]
/ɡɜɹl/
[ɡɚ(ɹ)ɫ]
[ɡəɹ(ə)l]
/ɡeːl/
/ɡɛːl/
/ɡɛɹl/
Word forms
girl
girls
gal
gel
girle
gyrle
gorl
gril
grrrl
grrl
guhrl
gurl
gworl
gyal
girling
girled
Etymology
From Middle English gerle, girle, gyrle (“young person (boy or girl)”), perhaps from Old English *gyrele, from Proto-West Germanic *gurilā, from a zero-grade diminutive of *gaurā (“young child”) + *-ilā. Ultimately of unknown origin. Doublet of gal/gyal and gyaru. Cognates Cognate with Yola gurl (“child, girl”), German Gör, Göre (“brat, cheeky young child”), Low German Gör (“child”).
Synonyms
babe
bint
bird
cake
chick
colleen
cutty
damoiselle
damsel
elrig
frail
gal
gel
girl
girlie
girly
grill
hottie
lass
lassie
little girl
maggie
maid
maid child
maiden
minoress
miss
missy
moggy
poppet
pucelle
puss
quean
tart
wan
wench
woman child
char
charlady
charwoman
maidservant
womanservant
benzoylmethylecgonine
blow
Bolivian marching powder
booger sugar
boots
California corn flakes
charlie
ching
coke
corinne
crystals
flake
hard white
marching powder
nose beer
nose candy
nose powder
party powder
Related words
Derived words
acegirl
air-girl
air girl
all-girls
altar girl
antigirl
apegirl
Asian baby girl
as the next girl
atta girl
attagirl
away-day girl
baby girl
bad girl
bagel girl
ball girl
banjee girl
bar girl
bargirl
batgirl
beach-girl
beachgirl
beach girl
bellgirl
best girl
b-girl
big girl
big-girl pants
big girl pants
big girl's blouse
biogirl
birl
birthday girl
Bond girl
bottle girl
bottom girl
bovver girl
boy-girl
boy meets girl
boy-meets-girl
boy or girl paradox
boys and girls
bruh girl
bunny girl
busgirl
bus girl
business girl
calendar girl
call girl
call-girl
callgirl
camgirl
cam girl
Campfire Girl
canary girl
candy girl
card girl
career girl
carton girl
catgirl
Translations
Abkhaz: аҧҳəызба
Abkhaz: аӡӷаб
Afar: awka
Afrikaans: meisie
Aklanon: deaga
Albanian: vajzë
Albanian: çikë
Albanian: gocë
Albanian: cucë
Albanian: voce
Aleut: asxinux
Aleut: ayaĝaadax̂
Southern Altai: кыс
Alutor: лйаӈи
Alviri-Vidari: کنگ
Amharic: ሴት ልጅ
Amharic: ልጃገረድ
Chiricahua: ’it’éeké
Chiricahua: jeekȩ́n
Jicarilla: ch’eekéé
Western Apache: at’eedn
Western Apache: at’een
Western Apache: it’eedn
Western Apache: it’een
Western Apache: it’éédn
Western Apache: it’één
Western Apache: (-na’ilį’) na’ilín
Western Apache: it’ídé
Arabic: بِنْت
Arabic: فَتَاة
Arabic: طِفْلة
Arabic: بنت
Arabic: فتاة
Arabic: صبيّة
Arabic: درية
Chadian Arabic: بنية
Armenian: աղջիկ
Aromanian: featã
Assamese: ছোৱালী
Asturian: neña
Asturian: ñena
Avar: яс
Azerbaijani: qız
Baluchi: جنک
Bangi: elenge
Bashkir: ҡыҙ
Basque: neska
Belarusian: дзяўчы́на
Belarusian: дзе́ўчына
Belarusian: дзяўча́
Belarusian: дзяўчы́нка
Bengali: মেয়ে
Bhojpuri: लइकी
Breton: plac'h
Budukh: риж
Bulgarian: моми́че
Bulgarian: дево́йка
Bulgarian: мома́
Bulgarian: моми́ченце
Bulgarian: дево́йче
Burmese: သူငယ်မ
Burmese: မိန်းကလေး
Burmese: ကောင်မလေး
Buryat: басаган
Carpathian Rusyn: дівча
Catalan: noia
Catalan: nena
Catalan: xiqueta
Catalan: al·lota
Central Siberian Yupik: neveghsaq
Chechen: йоӏ
Cherokee: ᎠᏔᏄᏣ
Chichewa: mtsíkana
Chichewa: msúngwana
Chickasaw: chipota tiik
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