girlnoun
uk/ɡɜːl/us/ɡɝːl/A1 [ C ] a female child or young woman, especially one still at school:
Two girls showed us round the classrooms.
A1 [ C ] a daughter:
We have two girls.
My little girl is five.
[ C usually plural ] old-fashioned a woman worker, especially when seen as one of a group:
shop/office girls
the girls B1 [ plural ]
a group of female friends:
I'm going out with the girls tonight.
The girls at work gave it to me.
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- Police are still looking for clues in their search for the missing girl.
- He touched the girl on the arm to get her attention.
- One little girl was clinging onto a cuddly toy.
- Both girls compete for their father's attention.
- He made quite an impression on the girls at the tennis club.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Children & babies
- a mouth to feed idiom
- arrival
- babe
- babe in arms
- baby
- childlike
- childproof
- children
- crawler
- designer baby
- oops-a-daisy
- pacifier
- papoose
- perisher
- pest
- tomboy
- tot
- tyke
- urchin
- waif
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Employees & colleagues
Friends, acquaintances & contemporaries
Idiom(s)
a big/great girl's blouse