Girl

5 definitions found

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 WordNet (r) 2.0 [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}, {male child}]
       3: a female human offspring; "her daughter cared for her in her
          old age" [syn: {daughter}] [ant: {son}, {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 Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  127 Moby Thesaurus words for "girl":
     Dulcinea, Eve, Frau, Fraulein, abigail, amah, au pair girl, ayah,
     babe, baby, best girl, betrothed, betweenmaid, biddy, bird, broad,
     chambermaid, chaperon, chick, colleen, companion, cook, crumpet,
     cutie, dame, damoiselle, damsel, daughter of Eve, deb, debutante,
     demoiselle, distaff, doll, domina, donna, dowager, dream girl,
     duenna, female, femme, femme de chambre, fiancee, fille de chambre,
     filly, frail, friend, frow, gal, gamine, gentlewoman, gill,
     girl friend, girlie, handmaid, handmaiden, heifer, hired girl,
     housemaid, hoyden, inamorata, jeune fille, jill, jo, junior miss,
     kitchenmaid, lady, lady friend, lady love, lady-help,
     lady-in-waiting, lass, lassie, little missy, live-in maid,
     live-out maid, lover, mademoiselle, maid, maiden, maidservant,
     matron, milady, miss, missy, mistress, moll, mouse, nursemaid,
     nymphet, old lady, parlormaid, piece, quail, quiff, romp,
     schoolgirl, schoolmaid, schoolmiss, scullery maid, servant girl,
     servitress, skirt, slip, soubrette, squaw, squeeze, subdeb,
     subdebutante, subteen, subteener, sweetheart, tally, teenybopper,
     tomato, tomboy, tweeny, twist, upstairs maid, virgin, vrouw,
     wahine, waiting maid, weaker vessel, wench, woman, young creature,
     young thing
  
  

From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:

  GIRL
       Generalized Information Retrieval Language
       
       

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  GIRL
       
          Graph Information Retrieval Language.  A language for handling
          {directed graph}s.
       
          ["Graph Information Retrieval Language", S. Berkowitz, Report
          76-0085, Naval Ship Res Dev Center, (Feb 1976)].
       
          (1994-11-02)