dictionary definitions for "girl"


From WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003) [wn]:

  girl
      n 1: a young woman; "a young lady of 18" [syn: 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}, little girl] [ant: male child]
      3: a female human offspring; "her daughter cared for her in her
         old age" [syn: daughter] [ant: son]
      4: a girl or young woman with whom a man is romantically
         involved; "his girlfriend kicked him out" [syn:
         girlfriend, 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 (19 Sep 2003) [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)
  


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