Dictionary Entry

girl

Part of Speech: nounPronunciation: /ɡɵːl/Used In Literature ↓

A female child, adolescent, or a young woman.

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Common Phrases

. girlgirl littlegirl younggirl oldgirl poorgirl pretty

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Poetry examples for “girl”

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

"Oh loud, my girl, it once would knock,
You should have felt it then;

And find unwithered on its curls
The garland briefer than a girl's.

And Dick step off with Fan;
The girl would lift her glances
To his, and both be mute:

Arches, and the world is wide,
Though the girl he loves the best
Rouses from another's side.

"Is my girl happy,
That I thought hard to leave,

Close at my heel with yelping treble flies;
The whimpering girl, and hoarser-screaming boy,
Join to the yelping treble shrilling cries;

Of temper amorous, as the first of May,
With lengths of yellow ringlet, like a girl,
For on my cradle shone the Northern star.

“ Ghildren die; and let me tell you, girl, - é
Howe’er you babble, great deeds cannot die.”’—III. 236-7,

With prudes for proctors, dowagers for deans,
And sweet girl-graduates in their golden hair.
I think they should not wear our rusty gowns,

I have heard, I know not whence, of the singular beauty of Maud;
I play*d with the girl when a child; she promised then to be fair.