A girl is any female human from birth through childhood and adolescence to attainment of adulthood. The term may also be used to mean a young woman.

Contents

• 1 Etymology
  • 1.1 Usage for adults
• 2 Demographics
• 3 Gender and environment
• 4 Art and literature
• 5 Popular culture
• 6 See also
• 7 Notes

Etymology

The word girl first appeared during the Middle Ages between 1250 and 1300 CE and came from the Anglo-Saxon words gerle (also spelled girle or gurle). The Anglo-Saxon word gerela meaning dress or clothing item also seems to have been used as a metonym in some sense.

A girl from Mali

Girl has meant any young unmarried woman since about 1530. Its first noted meaning for sweetheart is 1648. The earliest known appearance of girl-friend is in 1892 and girl next door, meant as a teenaged female or young woman with a kind of wholesome appeal, dates only to 1961.

Noun

girl (plural girls)

1. A young female (in contrast to boy), usually a child or adolescent.

   Amanda is a girl of 16.

2. Any woman, regardless of her age. See usage notes.
3. A female servant; a maid. See usage notes.
4. (figuratively, pejorative) A boy with girl-like qualities, especially squeamishness.

   Stop being such a girl and punch back.

5. (rare) A queen (the playing card.)
6. (colloquial) A term of endearment. See usage notes.
7. a girlfriend.

   I'm going to meet my girl over there.

8. a daughter.

   Your girl turned up on our doorstep.

Usage notes

• (any woman, regardless of her age): Calling a grown woman a "girl" may be considered either a compliment or an insult, depending on context and sensibilities. In some cases, the term is used as a euphemism for virgin, to distinguish a female who has never engaged in sexual intercourse whereas a woman is one who has done so.

Quotes about girls.

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• Sugar, spice and everything nice. These were the ingredients chosen to create the perfect little girls.
  • Opening narration from The Powerpuff Girls television show

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• Courage, sacrifice, determination, commitment, toughness, heart, talent, guts. That's what little girls are made of; the hell with sugar and spice.
  • Bethany Hamilton

• From the girl the woman is born; for It is in her that the future lies.
  • Anonymous

• If all the girls who attended the Yale prom were laid end to end, I wouldn't be a bit surprised.
  • Dorothy Parker

• Many men can learn a lot from girls, they just have to try.
  • Reploid Ciel

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