female child

1. 1.

   a youthful female person

   “the baby was a girl”

   “the girls were just learning to ride a tricycle”

   Synonymsgirllittle girl

   Antonymsmale child

   Broaderfemale

   NarrowerCampfire Girlfarm girlflower girlmoppetschoolgirlScout

Questions about female child

What does female child mean?

female child means "a youthful female person".

What is another word for female child?

Close synonyms include girl, little girl. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of female child?

The recorded antonyms are male child.

Is female child a common word?

female child is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.