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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 staging of the former’s broomstick flights is “Top Gun” for tween girls, and her castle in the sky is a strangely scary redoubt somewhere between Tim Burton and a German Expressionist film.

They worked a junior varsity girls’ game at Granada Hills this week.

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Signed by "Dave", Carrick wrote the girl was "not crazy" and it was "true", but he had stopped about four months ago.

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“And just really got to see that little girl that never healed from that incident and is trying to move past it.”

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It’s also why many children, especially girls, aren’t diagnosed with autism until later in childhood.

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