Definition of girl

"girl" in the noun sense

1. girl, miss, missy, young lady, young woman, fille

a young female

"a young lady of 18"

2. female child, girl, little girl

a youthful female person

"the baby was a girl"

"the girls were just learning to ride a tricycle"

3. daughter, girl

a female human offspring

"her daughter cared for her in her old age"

4. girlfriend, girl, lady friend

a girl or young woman with whom a man is romantically involved

"his girlfriend kicked him out"

5. girl

a friendly informal reference to a grown woman

"Mrs. Smith was just one of the girls"

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Quotations for girl

A lovely girl is above all rank. [ Charles Buxton ]

Sweet girl graduates, in their golden hair. [ Tennyson ]

The eastern hanging crescent climbeth higher;
See, purple on the azure softly steals.
And Morning, faintly touched with quivering fire
Leans on the frosty summits of the hills,
Like a young girl over her hoary sire. [ Roscoe ]

The best shelter for a girl is her mother's wing.

Homeliness is the best guardian of a young girl's virtue. [ Mme. de Genlis ]

A girl of sixteen accepts love; a woman of thirty incites it. [ A. Ricard ]

As pure as a pearl, And as perfect; a noble and innocent girl. [ Lord Lytton ]

Suitors of a wealthy girl seldom seek for proof of her past virtue.

The inward fragrance of a young girl's heart is what crystallizes into love. [ Richter ]

The beauty of a young girl should speak to the imagination, and not to the senses. [ A. Karr ]

The heart of a girl is like a convent: the holier the cloister, the more charitable the door. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

Dress deceives us: jewels and gold hide everything: the girl herself is the least part of herself. [ Ovid ]

In this advanced century, a girl of sixteen knows as much as her mother, and enjoys her knowledge much more.

I think I should know how to educate a boy, but not a girl; I should be in danger of making her too learned. [ Niebuhr ]

No girl who is well bred, kind, and modest is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want of manners or of heart. [ John Ruskin ]

A wise man in the company of those who are ignorant has been compared by the sages to a beautiful girl in the company of blind men. [ Saadi ]

No friendship is so cordial or so delicious as that of girl for girl; no hatred so intense and immovable as that of woman for woman. [ Landor ]

A marriageable girl is a kind of merchandise that can be negotiated at wholesale, only on condition that no one takes a part at retail. [ A. Karr ]

At the age of sixty, to marry a beautiful girl of sixteen, is to imitate those ignorant people who buy books to be read by their friends. [ A. Ricard ]

Every school boy and school girl who has arrived at the age of reflection ought to know something about the history of the art of printing. [ Horace Mann ]

When one is five-and-twenty, one has not chalkstones at one's finger-ends that the touch of a handsome girl should be entirely indifferent. [ George Eliot ]

No lover should have the insolence to think of being accepted at once, nor should any girl have the cruelty to refuse at once, without severe reasons. [ John Ruskin ]

The presence of a young girl is like the presence of a flower; the one gives its perfume to all that approach it, the other her grace to all that surround her. [ Louis Desnoyers ]

I love college football. It's the only time of year you can walk down the street with a girl in one arm and a blanket in the other, and nobody thinks twice about it. [ Duffy Daugherty ]

The girl of the period sets up to be natural, and is only rude; mistakes insolence for innocence; says everything that comes first to her lips, and thinks she is gay when she is only giddy. [ Beaconsfield ]

We love a girl for very different qualities than understanding. We love her for her beauty, her youth, her mirth, her confidingness, her character, with its faults, caprices and God knows what other inexpressible charms; but we do not love her understanding. [ Goethe ]

How often a new affection makes a new man! The sordid, cowering soul turns heroic. The frivolous girl becomes the steadfast martyr of patience and ministration, transfigured by deathless love. The career of bounding impulses turns into an anthem of sacred deeds. [ Chapin ]

Never teach false modesty. How exquisitely absurd to teach a girl that beauty is of no value, dress of no use! Beauty is of value; her whole prospects and happiness in life may often depend upon a new gown or a becoming bonnet; if she has five grains of commonsense she will find this out. The great thing is to teach her their proper value. [ Sydney Smith ]

I suppose as long as novels last, and authors aim at interesting their public, there must always be in the story a virtuous and gallant hero; a wicked monster, his opposite; and a pretty girl, who finds a champion. Bravery and virtue conquer beauty; and vice, after seeming to triumph through a certain number of pages, is sure to be discomfited in the last volume, when justice overtakes him, and honest folks come by their own. [ Thackeray ]

Throughout the pages of history we are struck with the fact that our remarkable men possessed mothers of uncommon talents for good or bad, and great energy of character; it would almost seem from this circumstance, that the impress of the mother is more frequently stamped on the boy, and that of the father upon the girl - we mean the mental intellectual impress, in distinction from the physical ones. Mothers will do well to remember that their impress is often stamped upon their sons. [ Helen Mar ]

Always the idea of unbroken quiet broods around the grave. It is a port where the storms of life never beat, and the forms that have been tossed on its chafing waves lie quiet forever more. There the child nestles as peacefully as ever it lay in its mother's arms, and the workman's hands lie still by his side, and the thinker's brain is pillowed in silent mystery, and the poor girl's broken heart is steeped in a balm that extracts its secret woe, and is in the keeping of a charity that covers all blame. [ Chapin ]

girl in Scrabble®

The word girl is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 5

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters girl:

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All Scrabble® Plays For The Word girl

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The 37 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In girl

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girl in Words With Friends™

The word girl is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 7

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters girl:

GIRL
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All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word girl

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The 41 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In girl

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Words within the letters of girl

3 letter words in girl (1 word)

4 letter words in girl (1 word)

girl + 1 blank (3 words)

Word Growth involving girl

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Longer words containing girl

bargirl bargirls

busgirl busgirls

callgirl callgirls

choirgirl choirgirls

cowgirl cowgirls

fishergirl fishergirls

flowergirl flowergirls

girlfriend exgirlfriend exgirlfriends

girlfriend girlfriends exgirlfriends

girlhood

girlie girlier

girlie girlies girliest

girliness

girling

girlish girlishly

girlish girlishness

girlish schoolgirlish

girllike

girlpower girlpowers

girlschool girlschools

girly

goosegirl goosegirls

newsgirl newsgirls

papergirl papergirls

playgirls

salesgirl salesgirls

schoolgirl schoolgirlish

schoolgirl schoolgirls

shopgirl shopgirls

showgirl showgirls

slavegirl slavegirls

weathergirl weathergirls