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girl  (gûrl)
n.
1. A female child.
2. A daughter: our youngest girl.
3. Often Offensive A woman, especially a young woman.
4. Informal
a. A woman socializing in a group of women: a night out with the girls.
b. Used as a familiar form of address to express support of or camaraderie with a woman.
5. Informal A female sweetheart: cadets escorting their girls to the ball.
6. Offensive A female servant or employee.

[Middle English girle, child, girl.]

girlhood n.

girlhood [ˈgɜːlˌhʊd]
n
the state or time of being a girl

Girlery, Girlhood girls collectively, 1805.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.girlhood - the childhood of a girlgirlhood - the childhood of a girl              
childhood - the time of person's life when they are a child
Translations
girlhood [ˈgɜːlhʊd] Njuventud f, mocedad f
girlhood [ˈgɜːrlhʊd]
n
(= childhood) → enfance f
(= teenage years) → jeunesse f, adolescence f
modif
(= child's) [experience, dream] → d'enfance
(= teenager's) [experience, dream] → de jeunesse
girlie magazine girly magazine [ˌgɜːrliˈmægəziːn] nmagazine m porno >
girl power ngirl power m
girlhood [ˈgɜːlˌhud] ngiovinezza


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Yet as Victoria aged, accounts of the two queens' girlhoods proliferated in painting and prose during the rise of children's literature, as Victorians attempted to realign the private feelings of these two women with their public status and responsibilities as queens.
This transformed and enriched countless girlhoods and, more broadly, signified recognition of a dignity in womanhood largely beyond the imagining of many earlier cultures.
 
 
 
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