girl
a young female
How often you will meet it
Rank 237 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 94,583 times across 155,370 chapters — 0.045% of every word in the library.
It belongs to the first 500 words, the band worth learning before any other.
What it means
noun
- a young female also: miss, missy, young lady, young woman, fille a young lady of 18
- a youthful female person also: female child, little girl the baby was a girlthe girls were just learning to ride a tricycle
- a female human offspring also: daughter her daughter cared for her in her old age
- a girl or young woman with whom a man is romantically involved also: girlfriend, lady friend his girlfriend kicked him out
- a friendly informal reference to a grown woman Mrs. Smith was just one of the girls
girl in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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The boy nodded his head sidewise toward his own home, and the girl silently nodded hers up and down in answer.
The Heart of the Hills · John, Jr. Fox · Chapter 1
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The girl and her chaperon had been deposited early in the desirable second-story window in Durfee, looking down on the tree.
The Courage of the Commonplace · Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews · Chapter 1
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Why should he take such a poor girl as you by the hand, as your letter says he has done twice?
Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded · Samuel Richardson · Chapter 1
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And when, after a good many childless years, she brought him a girl and boy, he became excessively fond of his children.
Christian's Mistake · Dinah Maria Mulock Craik · Chapter 1
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But for ten years he and this sweet-faced elderly woman in the doorway had been father and mother to the orphaned girl.
Gloria and Treeless Street · Annie Hamilton Donnell · Chapter 1