English Dictionary

girl

/ɡɜːɫ/

noun

A female child, adolescent, or a young woman. / A young female animal. / (sometimes offensive) A woman, especially a young and often attractive woman. / A female servant; a maid. (see usage notes)

The girl is playing in the park.

意味（1）

A female child, adolescent, or a young woman.

No matter how early I came down, I would find him on the veranda, smoking cigarettes, or[…]. And at last I began to realize in my harassed soul that all elusion was futile, and to take such holidays as I could get, when he was off with a girl, in a spirit of thankfulness.

意味（2）

A young female animal.

意味（3）

(sometimes offensive) A woman, especially a young and often attractive woman.

意味（4）

A female servant; a maid. (see usage notes)

意味（5）

(card games, slang, uncommon) A queen (the playing card).

意味（6）

(colloquial) A term of endearment. (see usage notes)

'Now, girls,' continued Healey, 'you're very high-spirited and that's as it should be but I won't have you getting out of hand...' Setting a spatted foot on the bench that ran down the middle of the changing-room with elegant distain, Adrian began to flip through the pile of Y-fronts and rugger shorts with his cane.

意味（7）

One's girlfriend.

There isn't any guy going to steal my girl!

意味（8）

One's daughter.

Your girl turned up on our doorstep.

意味（9）

(UK, dialect, obsolete) A roebuck two years old.

意味（10）

(US, slang, uncountable) Cocaine, especially in powder form.

She had taught me to snort girl, and almost always when I came to her pad, there would be thin sparkling rows of crystal cocaine on the glass top of the cocktail table.

意味（11）

(somewhat childish) A female (tree, gene, etc).

Are there “boy” trees and “girl” trees? Yes. A number of species, among them the yew, holly and date-bearing palm, have their male and female flowers on different trees. The male holly, for instance, must be planted fairly close to the female ...

意味（12）

(derogatory) A boy or man who is weak or sentimental.

Don't be such a girl!