Thesaurus:girl

Thesaurus

girl

English

Noun

Sense: child or adolescent female

Synonyms

• bint (slang)
• bird    [⇒ thesaurus] (slang)
• chick (slang)
• colleen (Irish)
• damoiselle (historical)
• damsel
• elrig (obsolete, UK, back slang)
• frail (dated, slang, possibly offensive)
• gal (colloquial, perhaps somewhat dated)
• gel (UK)
• girl
• girlie (colloquial)
• girly (childish)
• grill (internet slang)
• lass (archaic, informal)
• lassie (Scotland, Northern UK)
• little girl
• maggie (obsolete)
• maid (dated, poetic)
• maid child (archaic)
• maiden (now chiefly literary)
• minoress (rare)
• miss
• missy
• moggy (obsolete)
• poppet
• pucelle (archaic)
• puss
• quean (Scotland)
• wan (Ireland)
• wench (archaic)
• woman child (archaic)

Antonyms

• woman    [⇒ thesaurus]
• boy    [⇒ thesaurus]

Hyponyms

• frippet
• grisette
• hoyden
• ingenue
• ladette
• lolita    [⇒ thesaurus]
• schoolgirl
• tomboy

Hypernyms

• female    [⇒ thesaurus]
• person    [⇒ thesaurus]
• child    [⇒ thesaurus]

Further reading

• “129. infant” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “374. woman” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “girl” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.