LITTLE GIRL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does little girl mean? 

• LITTLE GIRL (noun)
  The noun LITTLE GIRL has 1 sense:

1. a youthful female person

  Familiarity information: LITTLE GIRL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LITTLE GIRL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A youthful female person

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

female child; girl; little girl

Context example:

the girls were just learning to ride a tricycle

Hypernyms ("little girl" is a kind of...):

female; female person (a person who belongs to the sex that can have babies)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "little girl"):

Campfire Girl (a girl who is a member of Campfire Girls; for girls age 7-18)

farm girl (a girl who has grown up on a farm)

flower girl (a young girl who carries flowers in a (wedding) procession)

moppet (a little girl (usually one you are fond of))

schoolgirl (a girl attending school)

Scout (a Boy Scout or Girl Scout)

 Context examples 

"Well, little girl, what is it?" replied her mother, in whose eyes the stately young lady still remained 'the baby'.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

And the little girl I saw on that first day at Mr. Wickfield's, where is she?

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

"I should recommend my little girl to be careful," her mother warned her one day.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Once Toto got too near the open trap door, and fell in; and at first the little girl thought she had lost him.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

When he had made two snips, he saw the little Red-Cap shining, and then he made two snips more, and the little girl sprang out, crying: Ah, how frightened I have been!

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

He has already had one or two little wives, but Louisa Biron is his favourite, a pretty little girl of five years of age.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Is this the first time you have left your parents to come to school, my little girl?

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Mrs. Norris was sorry to say that the little girl's staying with them, at least as things then were, was quite out of the question.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

I had entered on my studies at Oxford, while you were a good little girl working your sampler at home!

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

She left to my care her only child, a little girl, the offspring of her first guilty connection, who was then about three years old.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)