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girl

Definition for girl

noun as in female child

Strongest matches

child, kid, little one, young one, youngster

Strong matches

daughter, gamine, schoolgirl

Weak matches

hoyden, pixie, tomboy

noun as in young female person

Strong matches

damsel, gal, lass, lassie, mademoiselle, miss

Weak match

lady

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The sister of missing British girl Madeleine McCann on Thursday told a jury she found messages from a woman claiming to be her lost older sibling "creepy".

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At the moment his phone rang, he says, a single flower was in his line of vision, the same bloom in the pivotal Frankenstein scene where the monster throws a little girl into a lake.

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Raf calls Jacob, who has been separated from the gang and is chatting up a girl in a pub, and urges him to come join a brawl that threatens.

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Kōrero is an ordinary rural girl who rises to heroism in a manner worthy of Tolkien.

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Back in New York, Johnson was known as a party girl.

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