From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
girl
n 1: a young woman; "a young lady of 18" [syn: girl, miss,
missy, young lady, young woman, fille]
2: a youthful female person; "the baby was a girl"; "the girls
were just learning to ride a tricycle" [syn: female child,
girl, little girl] [ant: boy, male child]
3: a female human offspring; "her daughter cared for her in her
old age" [syn: daughter, girl] [ant: boy, son]
4: a girl or young woman with whom a man is romantically
involved; "his girlfriend kicked him out" [syn: girlfriend,
girl, lady friend]
5: a friendly informal reference to a grown woman; "Mrs. Smith
was just one of the girls"
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Girl \Girl\ (g[~e]rl), n. [OE. girle, gerle, gurle, a girl (in
sense 1): cf. LG. g["o]r child.]
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1. A young person of either sex; a child. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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2. A female child, from birth to the age of puberty; a young
maiden.
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3. A female servant; a maidservant. [U. S.]
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4. (Zool.) A roebuck two years old. [Prov. Eng.]
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From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008) [foldoc]:
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)