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GIRLS

"GIRLS" is a plural of: girl.

Date "GIRLS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

 

Specialty Definition: GIRLS

DomainDefinition

Dream Interpretation

To dream of seeing a well, bright-looking girl, foretells pleasing prospects and domestic joys. If she is thin and pale, it denotes that you will have an invalid in your family, and much unpleasantness.
For a man to dream that he is a girl, he will be weak-minded, or become an actor and play female parts. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted ....

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: Woman

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

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 role

The 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

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: GIRLS

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.
EntrySourceExpressionField

GIRLS

EnglishGlobal Interrogation Recording and Location SystemComputing, Information

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Crosswords: GIRLS

English words defined with "GIRLS": anaesthetic, anesthetic, attirebat mitzvah, bevy, bob, bothcampfire girl, corner, curtsyDancing girl, deck out, deck up, deflower, Dress goods, dress up, Dumb animalequally, evenlyfancy up, favored, feel, female, female child, fig out, fig up, finishing school, fortunateget up, Ghawazi, girl, golden, gravitate, gussy up, gymsliphair slide, housemaid's knee, hoyden, hoydenish, hoydenismleotards, little girlmarriageablenauch, nautch, nautch dance, nubileOpera girl, overdresspedal pusher, Praetexta, prinkrig outsame, Sisters of Mercy, skirt, slumber party, street corner, sunbonnet, sunhatThe Order of the Visitation of Our Lady, tights, tog out, tog up, tomboyish, tomboyishness, toreador pant, trick out, trick up, trouble, turned out, turning pointwork. (references)
Specialty definitions using "GIRLS": Alport syndromeBABE, Bajaderes, Bath, Bonnevie-Ullrich syndrome, bunheadCAB, Campaigners, CHEF DE FROIDDurdenEpigram, EUPHORBIA HIRTAFASHION COORDINATOR, fashion stylist, FOUR-H CLUB AGENTgonadal dysgenesis XOHennebergJig, Job's SyndromeLaundry, LOUIS IIMASCULINE, MAXIM, monosomy X, MULLERNARCISSUS, NERO, NonePutting on SideRepenter Curls, Ribbonsalacity, sleeping porch, SunshadeThats a nice one, The boys, Turner syndrome, Turner-Ullrich syndromeXO syndrome. (references)

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Modern Usage: GIRLS

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Why you gotta chase after girls all the time, Gabe (On the Town; writing credit: Adolph Green and Betty Comden)

I bet you're very popular with the girls. (A Beautiful Mind; writing credit: Akiva Goldsman)

Most girls would give their eyes for the chance to see Monte (Rebecca; writing credit: Daphne Du Maurier; Philip MacDonald)

His friends would say stop whining, they've had enough of that; His friends would say stop pining, there's other girls to look at; They've tried to set him up with Tiffany and Indigo; But there's something about Mary that they don't know; Mary, there's just something about Mary (There's Something About Mary; writing credit: Ed Decter; John J. Strauss)

Or let me guess, you've never tried it before. In fact, you don't normally approach girls -- am I right (Trainspotting; writing credit: John Hodge. Based on the novel by Irvine Welsh.)

Lyrics

About the girls of summer (Girls of Summer; performing artist: Aerosmith)

American girls all weather and noise (American Girls; performing artist: Counting Crows)

The East End boys and West End girls (WEST END GIRLS; performing artist: Pet Shop Boys)

Most girls want a man with the mean green (Most Girls; performing artist: Pink)

Naughty girls need love too (NAUGHTY GIRLS; performing artist: Samantha Fox)

Clever

Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . . . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime. (references; author: Mark Twain)

Movie/TV Titles

All the Real Girls (2003)

Boys and Girls (2003)

Girls of Hedonism (2000)

Escort Girls (1974)

Mama's Dirty Girls (1974)

Song Titles

California Girls (performing artist: The Beach Boys)

Black Bonnet Girls (performing artist: The Electric Amish)

Girls, Girls, Girls (performing artist: Jay-Z)

To All The Girls I've Loved Before (performing artist: Julio Iglesias & Willie Nelson)

Ghetto Girls (performing artist: Lil Bow Wow)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: GIRLS

DomainTitle

References

  

Books

  • Samantha's Surprise: A Christmas Story (American Girls Collection (Paper)) (reference)

  • Samantha's Theater Kit: A Play About Samantha for You and Your Friends to Perform (The American Girls Collection) (reference)

  • The Lost Daughters of China: Abandoned Girls, Their Journey to America, and the Search for a Missing Past (reference)

  • The Novels of Muriel Spark: Loitering With Intent/the Girls of Slender Means/the Abbess of Crewe/the Bachelors/the Ballad of Peckham Rye (reference)

  • Deadly Persuasion: Why Women and Girls Must Fight the Addictive Power of Advertising (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  • Indiana Seniors To Be & Under Classman Recruiting List: Girls (reference)

  • Indiana Track Times: Indiana Boys And Girls High School Results (reference)

  • Discovery Girls Magazine (reference)

  • New Moon: The Magazine For Girls & Their Dreams (reference)

  • Girls (reference)

    (more periodical examples)

  

Theater & Movies

  • Girls Just Want to Have Fun (reference)

  • Powerpuff Girls Power Pack (The Mane Event/Down 'n' Dirty/Powerpuff Bluff) (reference)

  • The Incredibly True Adventures of Two Girls in Love (reference)

  • The Powerpuff Girls - Meet The Beat-Alls (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

  

Music

  

High Tech

  

Consumer Goods

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: GIRLS

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Photo Album: GIRLS

ThumbnailDescription & CreditThumbnailDescription & Credit

Shown are various shots of two young girls with acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL) receiving chemotherapy. The girl on the left has an IV tube in the neck, the other girl's IV is in her arm. They are sitting on a bed and are demonstrating some of the procedures and techniques used with chemotherapy. Credit: Bill Branson (photographer).

Seen are two young girls with acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL) with a medical technician who is taking a blood sample from one of the girls while the other one looks on. The girls have undergone chemotherapy. Credit: Bill Branson (photographer).

Chief Collins with Tagahili dancing girls. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Young girls with holstein calf. Washington County, Virginia. Credit: Jeff Vanuga.

4H girls with lamb. Credit: USDA.

4H girls get Holstein heifer. Credit: USDA.

It Used To Be, At 13, Little Boys Became Interested In Little Girls. : Partnership For A Drug-Free America. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

She May Look Clean-But : Pick-ups "Good Time" Girls Prostitutes Spread Syphilis and Gonorrhea. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Sailors and WAVES from Naval Air Station, New Orleans, Louisiana, enjoy a boat ride while on leave. It appears that the girls are doing all the work. WAVES are (left to right): Aviation Machinist's Mate 2nd Class Evalyne Olsen and Pharmacist's Mate 3rd Class Anna Welsh. Passengers are (l-r): Signalman 2nd Class Harold Howey and Pharmacist's Mate 1st Class Jackie Welsh. The photograph was taken prior to December 1944. Credit: NAVY.

Three African American girls, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Digital Photo Gallery: GIRLS
 

"The girls of summer (i)" by Filipa Castro
Commentary: "I don't think I'll need a jacket. ."
"Two girls" by (c) opheliaCherry
Commentary: "Models>> my lovely friend Sensimillia and Ming-z (background) place>> Soresina, swimming pool (italy) date>> summer 2000 res>> 300dpi ."

Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

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Familiar Quotations: GIRLS

AuthorQuotation

Author Unknown

Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Girls we love for what they are; men for what they promise to be.

Louisa May Alcott

What do girls do who haven't any mothers to help them through their troubles?
Girls are so queer you never know what they mean. They say No when they mean Yes, and drive a man out of his wits for the fun of it.

Oliver Goldsmith

Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.

Robert Louis Stevenson

The little rift between the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls and another to the boys.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Historic Usage: GIRLS

AuthorDateQuotation

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

1963

I have a dream that one day the state of Alabama, whose governor's lips are presently dripping with the words of interposition and nullification, will be transformed into a situation where little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls and walk together as sisters and brothers. (Delivered on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. on August 28, 1905)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: GIRLS

TitleAuthorQuote

Double Acrostic: Two little girls

Carroll, Lewis

TWO little girls near London dwell, More naughty than I like to tell

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

I repeat it, it is a question of wives, it is a question of mothers, it is a question of young girls, it is a question of babes

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Joyce, James

Women and girls dressed in long vivid gowns traversed the street from house to house

Time Enough for Love

Robert Heinlein

Little girls, like butterflies, need no excuse

Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John

And young girls found each other and boasted shyly of their popularity and their prospects

Gulliver's Travels

Swift, Jonathan

And last the boys and girls would venture to come and play at hide and seek in my hair

Walden

Thoreau, Henry David

Girls and boys and young women generally seemed glad to be in the woods

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: GIRLS

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Daytime wetting is more common in girls. (references)

It is twice as common in boys as in girls. (references)

They typically occur in girls and young women. (references)

Business

Essentially all children put up for foreign adoption are girls. (references)

Argentine tradition says that when girls become 15 years old, their family will have a party. (references)

Female infanticide, abandonment, or neglect of baby girls may also be a factor in some areas. (references)

Children

Uruguay

Girls and boys are treated similarly. (references)

Indonesia

Of these, about 20 percent are girls. (references)

Equatorial Guinea

Only 9 percent of girls finish fifth grade. (references)

Civil Liberties

Ethiopia

Muslim leaders stated that in some schools, Muslim girls go without head coverings in order to avoid similar problems. (references)

Pakistan

NGO's and private entities provided women and girls with better education and health care than is available in Afghanistan. (references)

Zimbabwe

Human rights activists also have criticized these indigenous churches for their sanctioning of marriages for underage girls. (references)

Discrimination

Afghanistan

Its severity varied from area to area, depending on the local leadership's attitude toward education for girls and employment for women and on local attitudes. (references)

Economic History

Peru

This strategic objective is aimed at assisting the Government of Peru and civil society organizations to develop initiatives that address critical constraints to basic education of girls in rural areas in Peru. (references)

Morocco

The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has had an active and effective program in Morocco since 1953. The amount of USAID assistance in Morocco in FY2001 was $14.7. USAID's program focuses on four development problems--population and health, water resources management, expanding economic opportunities for the poor, and increasing primary education attainment for girls in rural areas. (references)

Human Rights

Cote d'Ivoire

At year's end, 170 juveniles ages 13 to 17, including 11 girls, were in detention. (references)

Burkina Faso

They also stripped naked a number of citizens, including approximately 20 high school girls. (references)

Algeria

The terrorists raped two teenage girls before killing them and abducted a 23-year-old woman. (references)

Indigenous People

Guatemala

A disproportional number of indigenous girls do not attend school. (references)

Minorities

Bangladesh

In recent decades, Muslims have put more of an emphasis on education, particularly the education of girls. (references)

Egypt

The retrial opened November 3, and the next session was scheduled for January 2002. There were reports of forced conversions of Coptic girls to Islam. (references)

Political Economy

Suriname

Violence against women and trafficking in women and girls are problems. (references)

Sudan

Girls also withdraw from school early due to family obligations or early marriage. (references)

Sierra Leone

International aid groups believe that girls who were abducted by the RUF may remain as sex slaves. (references)

Women

Sierra Leone

FGM is practiced on girls as young as 5 years old. (references)

Singapore

Sexual intercourse with girls under the age of 16 is illegal. (references)

Bolivia

Young girls often leave school early to work at home or in the economy. (references)

Worker Rights

Morocco

Their victims included 101 boys and 66 girls. (references)

Indonesia

Many of the girls and women were hired under false pretenses. (references)

Indonesia

Other children, mostly girls, serve as live-in domestic servants. (references)

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

EPIGRAM, n. A short, sharp saying in prose or verse, frequently characterize by acidity or acerbity and sometimes by wisdom. Following are some of the more notable epigrams of the learned and ingenious Dr. Jamrach Holobom: We know better the needs of ourselves than of others. To serve oneself is economy of administration. In each human heart are a tiger, a pig, an ass and a nightingale. Diversity of character is due to their unequal activity. There are three sexes; males, females and girls. Beauty in women and distinction in men are alike in this: they seem to be the unthinking a kind of credibility. Women in love are less ashamed than men. They have less to be ashamed of. While your friend holds you affectionately by both your hands you are safe, for you can watch both his.

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Spoken Usage: GIRLS

SpeakerPhrase(s)

Angela Ricci

Well, heartbroken for the Smart family. The only one he ever really spoke of was Ed. He didn't go on about the girls.

James Dobson

Very different. Girls are very different than boys and everybody who's raised one of each knows that.

Kevin Kline

We used the Emma Willard School for Girls up in Troy, New York for the exteriors and the interiors were actually shot here in New York City up at Union Seminary and a bit at St. John the Divine. We just had to find big kind of neo-gothic architecture.

Ross Perot

Volunteer for the military, volunteer for the ROTC as you go through college. And believe me, it would be one of the greatest experiences of your life in terms of turning girls into women and boys into men.

Suzanne Somers

Little boys are so full of testosterone and energy, and I have two grandsons that bite each other constantly, but then the girls, they like to play in the corner, and they're just different.

Tim McGraw

I love my girls. I am the king of the house. I don't know. We're young yet, so we'll see what happens.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: GIRLS

"GIRLS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 99.90% of the time. "GIRLS" is used about 9,611 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (plural)99.9%9,601989
Noun (proper)0.06%6143,867
Lexical Verb (-s form)0.04%4175,879
                    Total100.00%9,611N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: GIRLS

Expressions using "GIRLS": be popular with the girls book for girls camp fire girls dancing girls girls scout opera girls score with the girls twin girls. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "GIRLS": girls-are-better-than-boys, girls-next-door, girls-only.

Ending with "GIRLS": all-girls, call-girls, shop-girls.

Containing "GIRLS": all-girls-together.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: GIRLS

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

girls.com power puff

98

girls.com olivers

9

athens girls.com

78

gilmore girls.com

8

spice girls.com

50

420 girls.com

8

girls.com suicide

32

girls.com pigtail

7

girls.com innocent

31

girls.com trashy

7

horny girls.com

28

beautiful girls.com most

6

gilmore girls.net

23

girls.com innocent lola

6

girls.com goo

20

girls.com sg

5

vivid girls.com

20

gilmore girls.org

5

girls.com piss

19

black girls.com horny

5

cheetah girls.com

17

girls.com guyanese

4

girls.com xl

16

crushing girls.com

4

fallen girls.com

15

girls.com sado

4

404 girls.com

12

girls.com horney

4

chinatown girls.com

11

girls.com ringmaster

4

black girls.com thick

11

girls.com sos

4

groovy girls.com

10

girls.com hott

4

girls.tv party wild

10

cheeky girls.com

3

girls.com party wild

10

girls.com rl

3

girls.net shine

10
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: GIRLS

Language Translations for "GIRLS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Arabic 

  

‏الفتيات. (various references)

   

Czech

  

mít úspìch u dívek (score with the girls). (various references)

   

French

  

jumelles (twin girls), égalité des chances des jeunes filles et des garçons en matière d'éducation (equal opportunities for girls and boys in education). (various references)

   

German

  

Mädchen (colleen, female, girl, girlie, lass, lassie, maid, maiden, maids, slavey, wench, wenches). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

nagylányok (elder girls), felsős lányok (elder girls). (various references)

   

Italian

  

ragazze (gals). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

助番 (leader of a group of delinquent girls), モンテカルロ法 (jacket, Jacobi, Monroe, Monroe effect, Monte Carlo method, Monteverdi, Montgomery, my Paris, subculture of teenage girls ca. 1999, Yakult, Yalta, Yamaha, yank, Yankee, Yankeeism, yard, yard sale, young, young adult, young Mrs, young power, young town, young traditional, young urban professional, younger generation, yuppie), 児女 (boys and girls), 少年少女 (boys and girls), 少女小説 (story for young girls), 女歌舞伎 (girls kabuki), 奇麗所 (geisha girls), コカの木 (coca tree, Coca-Cola, cocaine, cockpit, cocoa, COCOM, COCOM list, Coordinating Committee for Export to Communist Area, coquette, coquetterie, coquettish, cuckoo, obsessively trend-conscious teen-age girls who may offer themselves for enjou kousai with older men in order to finance their lifestyle, shell), ギャル男 (gallop, galloping inflation, gang), アミロ法 (amnesty, Amnesty International, amoeba, Amtrak, amylo process, love, young girls who imitate the style of singer Amuro Namie). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

すけばん (leader of a group of delinquent girls), おんなかぶき (girls kabuki), ヤマンバ (subculture of teenage girls ca. 1999), きれいどころ (geisha girls), しょうねんしょうじょ (boys and girls), しょうじょしょうせつ (story for young girls), コギャル (obsessively trend-conscious teen-age girls who may offer themselves for enjou kousai with older men in order to finance their lifestyle), ギャルお, アムラー (young girls who imitate the style of singer Amuro Namie), じじょ (authors preface, autobiography, boys and girls, lady attendant, maid, order, second daughter, self-help, system, thou, you). (various references)

   

Manx

  

eash inneen (pupilarity, pupilarity of girls). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

irlsgay.(various references)

   

Spanish

  

las muchachas (lasses). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

flickbok (book for girls). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

amerikada kız izci topluluğu (camp fire girls). (various references)

   

Turkmen 

  

ogul-gyz (boys and girls). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Bible Trace: GIRLS

LanguageDateSourceZechariah Chapter 8, Verse 5
Greek (transliterated)250 BCSeptuagintKai ai plateiai thV polewV plhsqhsontai paidariwn kai korasiwn paizontwn en taiV plateiaiV authV
Latin405VulgateEt plateae civitatis conplebuntur infantibus et puellis ludentibus in plateis eius
Middle English1395WyclifAnd streetis of the citee shuln be fulfillid with infauntis and maydens, pleyinge in the streetis of it.
Jacobean English1611King JamesAnd the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in the streets thereof.
Victorian English1833WebsterAnd the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in its streets.
Basic English1964OgdenAnd the open spaces of the town will be full of boys and girls playing in its open spaces.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Matched Bible Translations: GIRLS

LanguageZechariah Chapter 8, Verse 5
CebuanoUg ang mga dalan sa ciudad mangapuno sa mga bata nga lalake ug mga babaye nga magadula sa mga dalan niini.
CroatianA gradski æe se trgovi ispuniti djeèacima i djevojèicama koji æe se igrati na njegovim trgovima.'
Danishog Byens Torve skal vrimle af legende Drenge og Piger.
DutchEn de straten dier stad zullen vervuld worden met knechtjes en meisjes, spelende op haar straten.
FinnishJa kaupungin torit tulevat olemaan täynnä poikasia ja tyttösiä, jotka leikkivät sen toreilla.
FrenchLes rues de la ville seront remplies de jeunes garçons et de jeunes filles, jouant dans les rues.
Germanund der Stadt Gassen soll sein voll Knaben und Mädchen, die auf ihren Gassen spielen.
Haitian CreoleLari yo va plen ti gason ak ti fi k'ap jwe konsa toupatou.
HungarianÉs megtelnek a város utczái fiúkkal és leányokkal, a kik játszadoznak annak utczáin.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hariJalan-jalan di kota akan penuh lagi dengan anak-anak yang bermain-main.
Indonesian-Terjemahan LamaDan segala lorong negeri itu akan penuh dengan budak laki-laki dan perempuan yang ramai-ramai bermain pada segala lorongnya.
ItalianLe piazze della città formicoleranno di fanciulli e di fanciulle, che giocheranno sulle sue piazze».
MaoriKo nga waharoa ano o te pa kapi tonu i nga tamariki tane, i nga kotiro e takaro ana i ona waharoa.
Norwegianog torvene i byen skal være fulle av gutter og piker, som leker på torvene der.
PortugueseE as ruas da cidade se encherão de meninos e meninas, que nelas brincarão.   
RumanianUliyele cetqyii vor fi pline de bqieyi wi fete, cari se vor juca pe uliye.``
SpanishY las calles de la ciudad estarán repletas de niños y niñas jugando en ellas.'
SwedishOch stadens gator skola vara fulla av gossar och flickor, som leka där på gatorna,

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations & Misspellings: GIRLS

Derivations

Words ending with "GIRLS": cowgirls, homegirls, papergirls, playgirls, salesgirls, schoolgirls, shopgirls, showgirls. (additional references)


Misspellings

"GIRLS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dirls, Gehrls, gibralt, Gibris, gils, girla, Girle, girlest, girlz, girns, giros, Girosi, girsh, girts, goils, grisl, gurlz, Riglos, tirls. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "GIRLS"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "GIRLS" (pronounced ger"lz)
3-er" l zcurls, earls, pearls, swirls, twirls, whorls.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: GIRLS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "g-i-l-r-s"

-1 letter: girl, rigs.

-2 letters: lis, rig, sir, sri.

-3 letters: is, li, si.

 Words containing the letters "g-i-l-r-s"
 

+1 letter: argils, glairs, grails, grills, grilse, grisly, ligers.

 

+2 letters: argalis, garlics, gerbils, gilders, gillers, girasol, girdles, girlies, girlish, girosol, glaires, gliders, glister, glorias, glories, grilles, grilses, gristle, gristly, largish, ligures, lingers, regilds, ridgels, ridgils, rulings, slinger, strigil.

 

+3 letters: airglows, algorism, aligners, birlings, brisling, carlings, clergies, clingers, cowgirls, cringles, curlings, darlings, engrails, erlkings, flingers, garboils, garishly, gasalier, gaselier, gasolier, gharials, gigglers, gilberts, girasole, girasols, girdlers, girosols, glaciers, glariest, glassier, glaziers, glimmers, glimpser, glisters, glitters, glorious, glossier, goliards, gomerils, gorillas, graciles, gracilis, graplins, grassily, greasily, gremials, gremlins, gribbles, griddles, grillers, grislier, gristles, grizzles, guilders, higglers, hirsling, hurlings, jinglers, lighters, ligroins, lordings, lustring, marlings, minglers, nargiles, nigglers, nursling, obligers, obligors, ogrishly, pilgrims, railings, rassling, realigns, relights, resiling, resoling, riesling, riflings, ringhals, ringlets, rollings, rustling, seraglio, shingler, shopgirl, showgirl, signaler, singular, skirling, slaggier, slangier, sleigher, slighter, slingers, sludgier, slurping, slurring, snarling, sniggler, sparling, springal, starling, sterling, strigils, surgical, swirling, tinglers, veligers, virgules, warsling, wergilds, wigglers, wriggles.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Slideshow
6. Images: Photo Album
7. Images: Digital Art
8. Quotations: Familiar
9. Quotations: Historic
10. Quotations: Fiction
11. Quotations: Non-fiction
12. Quotations: Spoken
13. Usage Frequency
14. Expressions
15. Expressions: Internet
16. Translations: Modern
17. Bible Trace
18. Abbreviations
19. Acronyms
20. Derivations
21. Rhymes
22. Anagrams
23. Bibliography


  

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