Standard Lemma guide
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name
A Chinese constellation located near Aquarius, one of the 28 lunar mansions and part of the Black Turtle.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: astronomy, natural-sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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noun
A female child.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
A woman, especially a young and often attractive woman.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, offensive, sometimes, uncountable
Qualifier: see usage note
Synonyms: none provided
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noun
A term of address to a female (see usage notes)
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: colloquial, countable, uncountable
Synonyms: girlie, lass, lassie
Antonyms: none provided
noun
One's girlfriend.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: colloquial, countable, uncountable
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noun
One's daughter.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
A female friend.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, especially, uncountable
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noun
A female non-human animal, especially, in affectionate address, a female pet, especially a dog.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
A female (tree, gene, etc).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: childish, countable, uncountable
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noun
A machine or vehicle, especially one that the speaker uses often and is fond of.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, informal, uncountable
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noun
A female servant; a maid. (see usage notes)
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Synonyms: char, charlady, charwoman, maid, maiden, maidservant, womanservant
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Cocaine, especially in powder form.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, slang, uncountable
Synonyms: benzoylmethylecgonine, blow, Bolivian marching powder, booger sugar, boots, California corn flakes, charlie, ching, coke, corinne, crystals, flake, girl, hard white, marching powder, nose beer, nose candy, nose powder, party powder, powder, rock, rocks, slim, sniff, snow, snuff, toot, wash, white, white girl, white lady, yay, yayo, yola
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A queen (the playing card).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, slang, uncommon, uncountable
Topics: card-games, games
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noun
A roebuck two years old.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, countable, dialectal, obsolete, uncountable
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noun
A child of any gender.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, obsolete, uncountable
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verb
To feminize or girlify; to gender as a girl or as for girls.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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verb
To staff with or as a girl or girls.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal
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noun
a female human offspring
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: daughter
Antonyms: boy
Broader terms: female offspring
Narrower terms: mother's daughter
noun
a youthful female person
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: female child, little girl
Antonyms: boy
Broader terms: female, female person
Narrower terms: Campfire Girl, farm girl, flower girl, moppet, schoolgirl, Scout
noun
a young woman
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: miss, missy, young lady, young woman, fille
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: woman, adult female
Narrower terms: baby, babe, sister, belle, bimbo, chachka, tsatske, tshatshke, tchotchke, tchotchkeleh, chit, colleen, dame, doll, wench, skirt, chick, bird, flapper, gal, gamine, Gibson girl, lass, lassie, young girl, jeune fille, maid, maiden, May queen, queen of the May, mill-girl, party girl, peri, ring girl, rosebud, sex kitten, sexpot, sex bomb, shop girl, soubrette, sweater girl, tomboy, romp, hoyden, valley girl, working girl
noun
a friendly informal reference to a grown woman
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: woman, adult female
noun
a girl or young woman with whom a man is romantically involved
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: girlfriend, lady friend
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: lover, woman, adult female
History
Calque of Mandarin 女宿 (Nǚxiù).
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”).
Across languages
561 source translations are retained for this English entry.
