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say it: gurl
girl is a noun meaning "a young female". It is pronounced /ˈɡɝl/ — gurl. It carries 5 recorded senses.
a young female
“a young lady of 18”
a youthful female person
“the baby was a girl”
“the girls were just learning to ride a tricycle”
a female human offspring
“her daughter cared for her in her old age”
a girl or young woman with whom a man is romantically involved
“his girlfriend kicked him out”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for girl come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.