transcription, транскрипция: [ gɜ:(r)l ]
( girls)
Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English.
1.
A girl is a female child.
...an eleven year old girl...
I must have been a horrid little girl.
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2.
You can refer to someone’s daughter as a girl .
We had a little girl.
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3.
Young women are often referred to as girls . This use could cause offence.
...a pretty twenty-year-old girl.
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4.
Some people refer to a man’s girlfriend as his girl . ( INFORMAL )
I’ve been with my girl for nine years.
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