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Definition: Girl |
GirlNoun1. A young woman; "a young lady of 18". 2. A youthful female person; "the baby was a girl"; "the girls were just learning to ride a tricycle". 3. A female human offspring; "her daughter cared for her in her old age". 4. A girl or young woman with whom a man is romantically involved; "his girlfriend kicked him out". 5. A friendly informal reference to a grown woman; "Mrs. Smith was just one of the girls". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "girl" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | GIRL Graph Information Retrieval Language. A language for handling directed graphs. ["Graph Information Retrieval Language", S. Berkowitz, Report 76-0085, Naval Ship Res Dev Center, (Feb 1976)]. (1994-11-02). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
Biographical Satire | GIRL, The Chorus, Um!. Source: Who was Who: 5000BC - 1914. |
Literature | Girl This word has given rise to a host of guesses: - Railey suggests garrula, a chatterbox. Minshew ventures the Italian girella, a weather-cock. Skinner goes in for the Anglo-Saxon ceorl, a churl. Why not girdle, as young women before marriage wore a girdle [girle]; and part of a Roman marriage ceremony was for the bridegroom to loose the zone. As for guessing, the word gull may put in a claim (1 Henry iv. 1); so may the Greek koure, a girl, with a diminutive suffix koure-la, whence gourla, gourl, gurl, girl. (The Latin gerula means a maid that attends on a child. Chaucer spells the word gurl.) Probably the word is a variation of darling, Anglo-Saxon, deorling. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Multilingual Slang | Catalan (hamba), Dutch (griet, muts, de, wijf), German (Ische), Hungarian (punci ), Italian (quaglia, topa). (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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The Girl Scouts of America is a scouting organization in the United States for girls. Its founder was Juliette Gordon Low.There are five age levels in Girl Scouting: Daisy, ages 5-6; Brownie, ages 6-8; Junior, ages 8-11; Cadette, ages 11-14; and Senior, ages 14-17.
In addition to its scouting activities, it is well known for raising funds by selling Girl Scout cookies.
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A woman is an adult female human being, as contrasted to an adult male, which is a man. The term woman (irregular plural: women) is used to indicate biological sex distinctions, cultural gender role distinctions, or both.
Sex
In terms of sex, women have various sexual characteristics that differentiate them from men. In women, the sex organs are involved in the reproductive system, whereas the secondary sex characteristics are involved in attracting a mate or nurturing children.
Although fewer females than males are born (the ratio is around 1:1.05), women make up the majority of the adult population. This is because males of all ages have a slightly higher death rate (even in the womb) and women live, on average, five years longer than men. This is thought to be a result of a combination of factors: genetics (redundant and varied genes present on sex chromosomes in women); sociology (such as military service); health-impacting choices (such as use of cigarettes and alcohol); the presence of the female hormone estrogen, which has a cardioprotective effect in premenopausal women, and the effect of high levels of androgens in men.
After the onset of menarche, most women are able to become pregnant and bear children. (See also obstetrics.) The study of female reproduction and reproductive organss is called gynecology. Women generally reach menopause in their late 40s or early 50s, at which point they can no longer become pregnant.
In general, women suffer from the same illnesses as men; however there are some sex-related illnesses that are found more commonly or exclusively in women.
Gender roles
Main article: gender roleThe general study of women at universities is pursued under the heading "women's studies". Almost since its inception, that study has been closely associated with feminism and has focused on the social and economic differences between the sexes. Current gender roles are criticised by both the feminism movement and the masculism movement.
Terms for women
While the usual definition of the word girl is 'female child', girl is also often used to refer to a young or unmarried woman. Since the early 1970s such usage has been questioned by feminists. Today, using the word in the workplace (as in "office girl") is typically considered inappropriate in the U.S., but remains commonplace in several other English-speaking countries. Outside the workplace, it is also standard practice in certain contexts (such as "girls night out"). In this sense, girl may be considered to be the analogue to guy or bloke for a man (the latter is seldom used in the U.S.).
See also
- Famous women in history
- Gender and sexuality studies
- Heroines in literature
- Misogyny
- New Woman
- Nu shu, the women-only language
- Olympic medalists in athletics (women)
- Role of women in Judaism
- Taliban treatment of women
- White slave trade
- Women in Science Fiction
- Women Science Fiction Authors
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Woman."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
GIRL | English | Generalized Information Retrieval Language | Computer - Computer - (CPU) |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: GirlSynonyms: daughter (n), female child (n), fille (n), girlfriend (n), lady friend (n), little girl (n), miss (n), missy (n), young lady (n), young woman (n). (additional references) |
| Antonyms: male child (n), son (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Amusement | Sportsman, gamester, reveler; master of ceremonies, master of revels; pompom girl; arbiter elegantiarum; arbiter bibendi, archer, fan, toxophilite, turfman. |
Auxiliary | Aide-de-camp, secretary, clerk, associate, marshal; right-hand, right-hand man, Friday, girl Friday, man Friday, gopher, gofer; candle-holder, bottle-holder; handmaid; servant; puppet, cat's-paw, jackal. |
Celibacy | Unmarried woman, spinster; maid, maiden;virgin, feme sole, old maid; bachelor girl, girl-bachelor; nun. |
Infant | Girl; lass, lassie; wench, miss, damsel, demoiselle; maid, maiden; virgin; hoyden. |
The Drama | Mountebank, Jack Pudding; tumbler, posture master, acrobat; contortionist; ballet dancer, ballet girl; chorus singer; coryphee danseuse. |
Woman | Nymph, wench, grisette; girl. (youth). |
Bachelor girl, new woman, feminist, suffragette, suffragist. | |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | She couldn't stay your little girl forever Jim. (Air Force One; writing credit: Andrew W. Marlowe) Claudia, you have been a very, very naughty little girl. (Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles; writing credit: Anne Rice) I mean, I'm a wheelchair girl now. And it's hard to pretend that I'm a beautiful rock star (The Sweet Hereafter; writing credit: Atom Egoyan) Michael was the most sexually experienced of us, which means he had kissed a girl on more than two occasions (Sleepers; writing credit: Barry Levinson) A girl has got to eat -- (Moulin Rouge!; writing credit: Baz Luhrmann; Craig Pearce) | |
Lyrics | I'm a barbie girl, in a barbie world (Barbie Girl; performing artist: Aqua) I'm gonna try for an uptown girl (Uptown Girl; performing artist: Billy Joel) I could escape this feeling, with my China Girl (China Girl; performing artist: David Bowie) Yeah, waiting for a girl like you (Waiting For A Girl Like You; performing artist: Foreigner) You stupid girl (Stupid Girl; performing artist: Garbage) | |
Clever | Every girl should use what Mother Nature gives her before Father Time takes it away. (references; author: unknown) A girl phoned me and said, "Come on over there's nobody home." I went over... Nobody was home! (references; author: unknown) | |
Tongue Twisters | Girl gargoyle, guy gargoyle. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | All American Girl (2003) College Girl (1974) I'm the Girl He Wants to Kill (1974) New Girl in Town (1974) China Girl (1974) | |
Song Titles | A Girl On Theology (performing artist: The Electric Amish) Waiting For A Girl Like You (performing artist: Foreigner) Candy Girl (performing artist: Frankie Valli And The Four Seasons) Hey, Girl (performing artist: Freddie Scott) Stupid Girl (performing artist: Garbage) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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 | A 10 year-old white girl is pictured here with her father in a swimming pool. She was diagnosed at age three with a form of Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL) that did not respond to therapy. She is presently in long-term remission after an experimental bone marrow transplant was performed. She now suffers from chronic GVH (Graft Versus Host Disease) which is rare. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer). |  | A 9 year-old white child is pictured here in a home setting chatting with her mother. The girl is a long-term survivor of massive abdominal surgery at age 3 for neuroblastoma. She is presently disease-free. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer). |
 | Health worker immunizing a young girl at an immunization clinic. Credit: CDC. |  | Girl eating apple. Nutrition. Credit: CDC. |
 | Florence Martus, Savannah's Waving Girl This statue commemorates a lady who brightened the lives of thousands of sailors Florence waved goodbye to hundreds of ships leaving the port of Savannah. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Two girl scouts plant three species of salt and high-marsh grass in a project designed to remove exotic and non-native salt marsh plants and restore them with native salt marsh plants. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
 | Waquoit Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. Detached orifice of beach replenishment dredge pipeline observed during Girl Scout beach study. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR). |  | A young girl enjoys a cool, clear Missouri stream. Credit: Charlie Rahm. |
 | 4H girl showing Hereford steer. Credit: USDA. |  | 4H girl grooming Hereford steer. Credit: USDA. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Buddha Girl" by Ashley Alderdice Commentary: "Buddha girl that is in my bedroom." | "Girl" by Christina Ava Commentary: "Portrait of a girl b&w,do tell me where u use my pictures im interested to know where they end up..:)." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Author | Quotation |
Alex Dumas | A young girl must not be taken to the theatre, let us say it once for all. It is not only the drama which is immoral, but the place. |
Bill Hicks | Supreme Court says pornography is anything without artistic merit that causes sexual thought, that's their definition, essentially. No artistic merit, causes sexual thought. Hmm. Sounds like...every commercial on television, doesn't it? You know, when I see those two twins on that Doublemint commercial? I'm not thinking of gum. I am thinking of chewing, maybe that's the connection they're trying to make. What? You've all seen that Busch beer commercial, where the girl in the short hot pants opens the beer bottle on her belt buckle, leaves it there, and it foams over her hand and over the bottle and the voice over goes, "Get yourself a BUSCH." Hmm. You know what that looks like, nah, no way. |
Charles Dickens | It's my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained. |
Elizabeth Gaskell | To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man! |
George Eliot | A toddling little girl is a center of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other. |
| You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's form of genius in you, and to suffer the slavery of being a girl. | |
Gregory | When a girl ceases to blush, she has lost the most powerful charm of her beauty. |
Martial | You ask what a nice girl will do? She won't give an inch, but she won't say no. |
Tori Amos | I'm a musician first, a food-lover second, a dirty mouth with feet, and a girl last time I checked. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Emma | Austen, Jane | And now, poor girl! she was considerably worse from this reappearance of Mr. Elton |
Sylvie and Bruno | Carroll, Lewis | It began by the youngest girl suddenly, and without provocation, addressing her eldest sister |
A Christmas Carol | Dickens, Charles | Nice girl! Very |
Life, the Universe and Everything | Douglas Adams | That young girl, he added unexpectedly, "is one of the least benightedly unintelligent life forms it has been my profound lack of pleasure not to be able to avoid meeting. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | As to the little girl, I must have some talk with monsieur about that |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | Eileen had long thin cool white hands too because she was a girl. |
Brighton Beach Memoirs | Neil Simon | Actually, I'd give up writing if I could see a naked girl while I was eating ice cream |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | I could tell you a funny story about that girl and that off bay. |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | The poor girl laid me on her bosom, and fell weeping with shame and grief |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | A girl born in 1990 can expect to live nearly 79 years. (references) | |
The girl reported no bite, and no evidence of a bite wound was found when she was examined. (references) | ||
In February 1995, the aunt of a 4-year-old girl was awakened by the sounds of a bat in the room where the child was sleeping. (references) | ||
Business | Opposed to promoting only knits or tailored trousers, department stores now carry lines that appeal to a specific customer base, such as “Weekend Man” or “School Girl Style. (references) | |
Children | Moldova | He also was rumored to have sterilized forcibly a teenage girl in his care. (references) |
South Africa | In November a 9-month-old girl was raped in Cape Town; six men were arrested for the crime. (references) | |
Ghana | In exceptional cases, when a girl of suitable age or status is unavailable, a boy can be offered. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Antigua and Barbuda | Residents cited increased numbers of persons with asthma and a serious injury to a young girl when a rock blasted from the quarry fell into a schoolyard. (references) |
Uganda | The group reportedly defiled and raped a 15-year-old girl between August and September 1999. In November 2000, the Director of Public Prosecutions ordered that Bushara and his followers be transferred from the Buganda Magistrates' Court to Luweero where the offenses allegedly were committed. (references) | |
Economic History | Ecuador | U.S. brands like Avon, Maybelline, and Cover Girl are perceived as high-quality products, and demand for them come from the middle and upper class segments of the market. (references) |
Human Rights | India | One of the inmates was a 10- or 11-year-old girl awaiting trial. (references) |
Jamaica | Police theorized that he may have been killed for molesting a young girl. (references) | |
Burundi | In July in Kinama, two soldiers raped a 12-year-old girl during a robbery. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Colombia | In December attacks by the AUC killed seven persons, while a subsequent attack by the FARC killed a 14-year-old girl in the village of San Lorenzo. (references) |
Minorities | Bulgaria | On July 15, six Roma males allegedly raped a 17-year-old girl. (references) |
Croatia | In May skinheads in Zagreb attacked a teenage Romani girl with knives and slightly wounded her. (references) | |
Women | Jordan | A coroner's report found that the girl had not been sexually active. (references) |
Jordan | There were no developments in the November 2000 beating death of a 19-year-old girl. (references) | |
South Africa | In July students at a girls' high school in Cape Town organized a demonstration in which thousands of students joined hands to form a solidarity chain for a young girl who had been raped. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Mozambique | The girl was recovered by the police, and the perpetrators were in detention awaiting trial at year's end. (references) |
United Arab Emirates | Five members of the ring were arrested while attempting to board a woman and a 15-year-old girl on a flight to Dubai. (references) | |
Ecuador | In addition to being provided with an inadequate diet, the youths were denied proper medical care and one girl had to have her finger amputated. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Monica Lewinsky | I do. I'm an incredibly lucky girl. For someone who has made some very foolish mistakes and had some tough lessons to learn very quickly, I am still incredibly lucky. |
Rosie O'Donnell | Listen, it warms me like nothing else to see how much her life has grown from the addition of this beautiful baby girl. And it's very similar to the way I feel my life has totally flourished and become full as the result of my son. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Herbert C. Hoover | 1929-1933 | The full opportunity for every boy and girl to rise through the selective processes of education can alone secure to us this leadership. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | Ten years ago a young girl left Vietnam with her family, part of the exodus that followed the fall of Saigon. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | Our schools will have the highest standards in the world, igniting the spark of possibility in the eyes of every girl and every boy. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Girl" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.96% of the time. "Girl" is used about 15,745 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.96% | 15,738 | 592 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.03% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Total | 100.00% | 15,745 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "girl": a chit of a girl ♦ a peach of a girl ♦ a slip of a girl ♦ a smasher of a girl ♦ a well set girl ♦ attractive girl ♦ au pair girl ♦ baby girl ♦ bach girl ♦ bachelor girl ♦ ball girl ♦ ballet girl ♦ bar girl ♦ beautiful girl ♦ best girl ♦ best looking girl ♦ birthday girl ♦ bouncing girl ♦ bunny girl ♦ call girl ♦ camp girl ♦ campfire girl ♦ career girl ♦ check girl ♦ chore girl ♦ chorus girl ♦ college girl ♦ continuity girl ♦ cover girl ♦ cue girl ♦ dairy girl ♦ dancing girl ♦ elevator girl ♦ factory girl ♦ fancy girl ♦ farm girl ♦ flower girl ♦ geisha girl ♦ german girl ♦ get a girl into a trouble ♦ gibson girl ♦ girl friday ♦ girl friend ♦ girl guide ♦ girl scout ♦ girl servant ♦ girl soldier ♦ glamour girl ♦ good girl ♦ gypsy girl ♦ hatcheck girl ♦ home girl ♦ homely girl ♦ juicy girl ♦ last year girl ♦ little girl ♦ mess about with a girl ♦ milk girl ♦ nautch girl ♦ newborn baby girl ♦ office girl ♦ old girl ♦ opera girl ♦ party girl ♦ pinup girl ♦ pompom girl ♦ preety girl ♦ pretty girl ♦ radar girl ♦ school girl ♦ script girl ♦ scrumptious girl ♦ second girl ♦ servant girl ♦ serving girl ♦ shepherd girl ♦ shop girl ♦ show girl ♦ slender girl ♦ slim girl ♦ slip of a girl ♦ strapping girl ♦ street girl ♦ sweater girl ♦ teenage girl ♦ that girl ♦ toddler girl ♦ uncommon fine girl ♦ unmarried girl ♦ very beautiful girl ♦ waiting girl ♦ white girl ♦ working girl ♦ young girl. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "girl": girl-at-the-ball-coming-down-the-grand-staircase, girl-centred, girl-child, girl-crazy, girl-cum-panto, Girl-friday, girl-friend, girl-friendly, girl-friends, girl-human, girl-like, girl-love, girl-murder, girl-next-door, girl-on-the-wing, girl-producing, girl-spy, girl-style, girl-thing, girl-who-fell-to-earth, girl-widow, girl-word. | |
Ending with "girl": all-girl, call-girl, little-girl. | |
Containing "girl": little-girl-lost. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
girl | 39,879 | little girl | 2,644 |
girl gone wild | 26,939 | russian girl | 2,638 |
hot girl | 12,856 | girl boy | 2,550 |
school girl | 6,902 | girl in thong | 2,474 |
girl kissing | 6,016 | gilmore girl | 2,324 |
asian girl | 4,735 | beautiful girl | 2,244 |
young girl | 4,697 | girl scout | 2,209 |
naughty girl | 4,517 | fat girl | 2,163 |
black girl | 4,497 | anime girl | 2,095 |
bikini girl | 4,226 | bad girl | 2,094 |
spice girl | 4,131 | girl web cam | 2,091 |
teen girl | 4,027 | pretty girl | 1,998 |
college girl | 3,539 | flower girl | 1,930 |
powerpuff girl | 3,264 | girl for girl | 1,880 |
japanese girl | 3,076 | show girl | 1,871 |
drunk girl | 3,034 | thai girl | 1,819 |
girl picture | 2,948 | girl next door | 1,805 |
beach girl | 2,925 | girl name | 1,804 |
flower girl dress | 2,840 | girl dress | 1,735 |
american girl | 2,829 | cute girl | 1,709 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "girl"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | meisie (lass, wench), dogter (daughter, lass, wench). (various references) | |
Albanian | vajzë (babe, chicken, child, colleen, damsel, daughter, demoiselle, female, gal, girlie, lass, lassie, maid, maiden, Miss, petticoat, puss, unmarried girl, wench). (various references) | |
Arabic | فتاة الملذات, فتاة (babe, baby, bird, bud, filly, gill, lass, maid, nymph, pigeon, wench, young woman), محبوبة (love), معشوقة (lass), عاملة, صبية, خادمة (bedder, charwoman, help, maid, maidservant, servant, servant maid, skivvy, slavey, wench, woman), إمراة فاجرة, إمرأة متزوجة (missis), إبنة (bairn, child, daughter, girondist), آنسة (damsel, maid, miss, ms., young lady), بنت (child, daughter, she). (various references) | |
Aymara | imilla. (various references) | |
Blackfoot | aakííkoan. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | момиче (bint, gal, lass, muslin, number, piece, pigeon, wench), млада жена (pigeon, quean, young lady), прислужница (housemaid, parlormaid, parlourmaid), девойка (adolescent, damsel, lass, maid, maiden, young lady). (various references) | |
Catalan | noia (lass, wench). (various references) | |
Chamorro | ákkaga. (various references) | |
Chinese | 女孩 (lass). (various references) | |
Cornish | mowes. (various references) | |
Czech | dívka (date, Miss, wench). (various references) | |
Danish | pige (lass, wench). (various references) | |
Dutch | meisje (bride, fiancée, lass, wench), meid (lass, maid, servant, wench). (various references) | |
Esperanto | knabino (lass). (various references) | |
Faeroese | genta (lass, Miss, spinster, unmarried woman, wench). (various references) | |
Farsi | معشوقه (Ladylove, Love, Mistress, Paramour, Peat, Pet, Stallion, Sweetheart), کلفت (Burly, Chambermaid, Charwoman, Housemaid, Squatty, Stocky, Thick, Woman), دوشیزه (Damosel, Damsel, Maiden), دختربچه , دختر (Daughter, Gal, Girlie, Lass, Maid, Quean, Sissified, Sissy, Wench). (various references) | |
Finnish | tyttö. (various references) | |
French | fille, jeune fille (young girl). (various references) | |
Frisian | famke (lass, wench). (various references) | |
German | Mädchen (colleen, female, girlie, girls, lass, lassie, maid, maiden, maids, slavey, wench, wenches), Mädel (gal, gals, girlie, lass, lassie). (various references) | |
Greek | κορίτσι (lass, lassie). (various references) | |
Guarani | kuñataî. (various references) | |
Hawaiian | vajzë (lass, wench). (various references) | |
Hebrew | ילדה (child, daughter), בחורה (lass, maiden, wench). (various references) | |
Hungarian | leány (colleen, gal, gill, job, lass, maiden, skirt), lány (bint, daughter, fille, gal, girly, lass, maiden, wench, wool), szolgálólány (maidservant, servant), szolgáló (clannish, handmaiden, maid, serving, wench), kislány (a bit of muslin, gal, lassie, pixy, sissy), elárusítónő. (various references) | |
Icelandic | stelpa (lass, wench), stúlka (lass, wench). (various references) | |
Indonesian | genduk, gadis (damsel, flapper, maid, maiden, virgin), pemudi, cewek, anak perempuan (daughter, lass). (various references) | |
Irish | cailín (lass, wench). (various references) | |
Italian | ragazza (gal, girl friend, lass, maid, missy, Moll, wench), piccola (lass, small, wench). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 童女 , 生娘 (maiden, virgin), メッシュ統計 (helmet, mass, media, media policy, media research, mediacracy, mesh statistics, message, message song, message-id, messe, messenger, meteor), 乙女 (maiden, virgin), 姉さん (elder sister, waitress), 姉さん (elder sister, waitress, wife who is older than her husband), 女の子 , 女の子 , 女子 (woman), 女 (daughter, woman), ガーター編み (African daisy, Gacrux, garbage, garbology, garden, garden party, garden smoker, garlic, garnet, garter stitch, gaucho, gaucho hat, gaucho look, gaucho pants, gauss, Gaussian, Geiger counter, gerbera, girder bridge, girdle, girl friend, girl hunt, Girl Scouts, gown, guard, guard bunker, guard cable, guardian, guardrail, guidance, guide number, guidebook, guideline, guidepost, guile, guy, security guard, spirit, tour guide). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | おなご (woman), おんなのこ, メッチェン , ねえさん (elder sister, waitress), どうじょ, ガール , じょし (arranging seats by seniority, foreward, Ms., particle, postposition, preface, woman), じょ (assistant, daughter, description, foreword, help, narration, preface, relation, rescue, woman). (various references) | |
Korean | 여아. (various references) | |
Lombard | tosa (daughter, lass, wench). (various references) | |
Luganda | muwala. (various references) | |
Manx | yah, 'neen (daughter), doodee (girl friend, maiden), caillin (colleen, lass, maid, waitress, young woman), caillag (flapper, lass, very young woman), bwoirrinagh (cow, crumpet, doe, female, female any age, lass, wench), ben aeg (maid, Miss, young woman). (various references) | |
Norwegian | pike (lass, wench), jente (lass, wench). (various references) | |
Papago | chehia. (various references) | |
Papiamen | mucha mohé (lass, wench), chek (lass, wench). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | irlgay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | menina (bint, child, infant, lass, missy, she, wench), garota (cissy, girlie, lass, lassie, pussycat, wench), rapariga (damsel, lass, maiden, petticoat, wench), moça (backfish, colleen, female, gal, lass, maid, may, peat, she, wench, young woman, youngling). (various references) | |
Romanian | vânzãtoare (salesgirl, saleswoman, shop-girl, shopwoman), tânãrã, iubitã (flame, lady, lady love, lass, mistress, paramour, sweetheart), fiicã (child, daughter), fatå (daughter, lass, wench), fatã (child, chit, damsel, daughter, lass, lassie, maid, maiden, Miss, puss, skirt, virgin), domnişoarã (damsel, maid of honor, maid of honour, Miss, young lady), copilã (daughter), adolescenţã (adolescence, flapper, girlhood, teen age, teen-ager, teens, youth). (various references) | |
Romansch | matta. (various references) | |
Romany | chay. (various references) | |
Russian | девушка (a bit of muslin, bint, colleen, demoiselle, dish, gal, lady, lass, lassie, maid, maiden, puss, quean, wench). (various references) | |
Scottish | cailin (damsel), caileag (lass, little girl, wench), caile (a hussy, quean, wench). (various references) | |
Sepedi | mosetsana. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | devojka (chick, damsel, demoiselle, girlfriend, lassie, maid, maiden, wench), devojčica (moppet). (various references) | |
Shona | musikana. (various references) | |
Sicilian | picciotta. (various references) | |
Spanish | muchacha (colleen, gal, lass, lassie, Molly, wench), chica (cutie, gal, lass, lassie, popcy, puss, sweetie, sweety, tootsy, wench). (various references) | |
Swazi | í-ntfombatâna. (various references) | |
Swedish | flicka (cobble, damsel, gal, lass, mend, Miss, patch, patch up, she, wench), tös (girlie, lass, maid, wench). (various references) | |
Tagalog | bátang babáe (lass, wench). (various references) | |
Thai | เด็กผู้หญิง. (various references) | |
Tswana | mosetsana. (various references) | |
Turkish | sevgili (beau, beloved, concubine, darling, dear, dearie, deary, dove, doxy, duck, duckie, ducky, fancy man, favorite, favourite, feller, fellow, flame, gallant, Gill, inamorata, inamorato, Jill, ladylove, love, loved, lover, paramour, pet, precious, queen, steady, sweetheart, sweetie, sweety, Truelove, well-beloved), kiz (daughter, lass, wench), kız arkadaş (girlfriend, lass, lassie, popsy, popsy-wopsy, steady), kız (babe, bird, bunny, chick, chicken, colleen, daughter, female, gal, Jenny, lass, lassie, maid, maiden, Miss, queen, wench), hizmetçi kız (maid, servant girl, tweeny, waiting girl). (various references) | |
Turkmen | gyz, gelingyz. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | служниця (lass, maid, maidservant, parlourmaid), молодиця, дівчинка (broad, daughter, lassie), дівчина (adolescent, celibate, colleen, demoiselle, doll, gal, lass, maiden, wench). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | bu n (missis, missus). (various references) | |
Welsh | geneth (lass, wench). (various references) | |
Xhosa | ntombi. (various references) | |
Yucatec | ch'uupal (lass, wench). (various references) | |
Zulu | intombi (lass, wench), intombazane (lass, wench). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | 2. ge. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | puella. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Matthew Chapter 14, Verse 11 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai hnecqh h kefalh autou epi pinaki kai edoqh tw korasiw kai hnegken th mhtri authV |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Et adlatum est caput eius in disco et datum est puellae et tulit matri suae |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | & man brohte þa his heafod on anendisce. & sealde þam maidene. & þæt maidenhire moder. |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And his heed was brouyt in a dische, and it was youun to the damysel, and she bar it to hir modir. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | And his heed was brought in a platter and geven to the damsell and she brought it to her mother. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And his head was brought in a charger, and given to the damsel: and she brought it to her mother. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And his head was brought in a dish, and given to the damsel: and she brought it to her mother. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And his head was put on a plate and given to the girl; and she took it to her mother. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Matthew Chapter 14, Verse 11 |
| Cebuano | ug ang ulo niya gihatud sinulod sa bandiha ug gihatag ngadto sa dalaga, ug kini iyang gidala ngadto sa iyang inahan. |
| Croatian | I doniješe glavu njegovu na pladnju, dadoše djevojci, a ona je odnije materi. |
| Danish | Og hans Hoved blev bragt på et Fad og givet Pigen, og hun bragte det til sin Moder. |
| Dutch | En zijn hoofd werd gebracht in een schotel, en het dochtertje gegeven; en zij droeg het tot haar moeder. |
| Finnish | Ja hänen päänsä tuotiin lautasella ja annettiin tytölle; ja tämä vei sen äidilleen. |
| French | Sa tête fut apportée sur un plat, et donnée à la jeune fille, qui la porta à sa mère. |
| German | Und sein Haupt ward hergetragen in einer Schüssel und dem Mägdlein gegeben; und sie brachte es ihrer Mutter. |
| Haitian Creole | Yo pote tèt la vini sou yon plato, yo renmèt fi a li. Fi a menm pote l' bay manman li. |
| Hungarian | És elõhozák az õ fejét egy tálban, és adák a leánynak; az pedig vivé az õ anyjának. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Kemudian kepala Yohanes itu dibawa masuk di atas baki dan diberikan kepada gadis itu. Lalu gadis itu membawanya pula kepada ibunya. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka kepala itu pun dibawa oranglah di dalam sebuah dulang, dan diberikan kepada anak perempuan itu, maka ia pun membawa kepada bundanya. |
| Manx Gaelic | As va'n kione er ny choyrt er claare as livreit gys y ven-aeg, as hug ish lh'ee eh gys e moir. |
| Maori | A i mauria tona matenga i runga i te rihi, i hoatu ki te kotiro: kawea atu ana e ia ki tona whaea. |
| Norwegian | Og de kom med hans hode på et fat og gav det til piken, og hun bar det til sin mor. |
| Portuguese | e a cabeça foi trazida num prato, e dada à jovem, e ela a levou para a sua mãe. |
| Rumanian | Capul a fost adus kntr`o farfurie, wi dat fetei, care l -a dus la mamq-sa. |
| Shuar | Tura amamkunam itiar nuwachin Súsarmiayi. Tura niisha ni Nukurí susamiayi. |
| Swahili | Kichwa chake kikaletwa katika sinia, wakampa yule msichana, naye akampelekea mama yake. |
| Swedish | Och hans huvud blev framburet på ett fat och givet åt flickan; och hon bar det till sin moder. |
| Uma | Woo' Yohanes toe rakeni hi lolo dula, ratonu-ki toronaa toei, pai' hi'a mpokeni hilou hi tina-na. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "girl": girlfriend, girlfriends, girlhood, girlhoods, girlie, girlies, girlish, girlishly, girlishness, girlishnesses, girls, girly. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "girl": cowgirl, homegirl, papergirl, playgirl, salesgirl, schoolgirl, shopgirl, showgirl. (additional references) | |
Words containing "girl": cowgirls, homegirls, papergirls, playgirls, salesgirls, schoolgirls, shopgirls, showgirls. (additional references) | |
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"Girl" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: birl, Gairm, galr, garal, Gavril, gerc, gerk, gerl, gerp, gerr, Ghir, gial, gibralt, Giel, gil, Giol, Giora, gir, gira, girf, giri, gi-rl, girla, Girle, girlz, girm, girn, girp, giry, goil, gork, gorl, gorp, gri, griel, gril, grisl, grln, grrl, gtir, gulr, gurl, gurle, gurly, gurlz, gurp, gurul, Gyhll, gyr, gyrl, igl, Igr, igrf, ilr, irl, Ngiro, oirl, Sgriol, tirl, virl. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "girl" (pronounced ger"l) |
| 2 | -er" l | birle, Burl, curl, earl, herl, hurl, swirl, merl, Merle, Pearl, twirl, unfurl, whirl, whorl. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "g-i-l-r" | |
-1 letter: rig. | |
-2 letters: li. | |
| Words containing the letters "g-i-l-r" | |
+1 letter: argil, girls, girly, glair, grail, grill, liger. | |
+2 letters: argali, argils, garlic, gerbil, gilder, giller, girdle, girlie, glaire, glairs, glairy, glider, gloria, gluier, gorily, grails, grille, grills, grilse, grimly, grisly, ligers, ligure, linger, logier, luring, regild, regilt, reguli, ridgel, ridgil, riling, ruling, trigly, uglier. | |
+3 letters: airglow, aligner, alright, angrily, argalis, argling, bilgier, birling, blaring, bulgier, burling, byrling, carling, clinger, cowgirl, cringle, curling, darling, dirling, engrail, erlking, figural, flaring, flinger, fragile, furling, garboil, garlics, gerbils, gharial, giggler, gilbert, gilders, gillers, girasol, girdled, girdler, girdles, girlies, girlish, girosol, glacier, gladier, glaired, glaires, glarier, glaring, glazier, glibber, gliders, glimmer, glister, glitter, glorias, gloried, glories, glorify, godlier, goliard, gomeril, gorilla, gracile, graplin, gremial, gremlin, gribble, griddle, grilled, griller, grilles, grilses, grimily, gripple, gristle, gristly, grizzle, grizzly, guilder, gulfier, gulpier, higgler, hurling, jingler, lairing, larding, largish, larking, ledgier, leering, leggier, lighter, ligroin, ligular, ligures, lingers, lingier, liturgy, loggier, lording, louring, lurking, marling, mingler, nargile, niggler, nurling, obliger, obligor, parling, pilgrim, purling, railing, realign, reeling, regalia, regilds, reginal, relight, relying, ridgels, ridgils, rifling, rightly, rigidly, rilling, ringlet, roiling, rolfing, rolling, ruglike, rulings, slinger, strigil, tingler, tirling, trilogy, veliger, virgule, wergild, wiggler, wriggle, wriggly. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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