1 [C] a female child:
a baby girl * a little girl of six * Hello, girls and boys!
2 [C] a daughter:
Our youngest girl is at college.
3 [C] (sometimes offensive) a young woman:
Alex is not interested in girls yet. * He married the girl next door.
4 [C] (usually in compounds) (old-fashioned, offensive) a female worker:
an office girl / a shop girl
5 [C] (old-fashioned) a man's girlfriend:
He's taking his girl home to meet his parents.
6 (girls) [pl.] (used especially as a form of address by women) a woman's female friends:
I'm having a night out with the girls. * Good morning, girls!
7 [sing.] (old girl) (often offensive) an old woman, especially sb's wife or mother:
How is the old girl these days? * Come along old girl, time for bed (= for example, said by an old man to his wife).
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for girl is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is girl a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, girl is tagged as noun.
Does girl appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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