YOUNG GIRL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does young girl mean? 

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

1. a girl or young woman who is unmarried

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• YOUNG GIRL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A girl or young woman who is unmarried

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

jeune fille; lass; lassie; young girl

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

fille; girl; miss; missy; young lady; young woman (a young female)

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

bobby-socker; bobbysoxer (an adolescent girl wearing bobby socks (common in the 1940s))

Lolita (a sexually precocious young girl)

 Context examples 

She was not the young girl as he had known her.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

That is unusual in a young girl.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I was scarcely hid when a young girl came running towards the spot where I was concealed, laughing, as if she ran from someone in sport.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

The fourth was only a young girl, and the drug had evidently affected her more strongly, so I lifted her on the sofa and let her sleep.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Having therefore first examined him privately, and then confronted him with me and the young girl, his majesty began to think that what we told him might possibly be true.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

The soldier now blew upon a green whistle, and at once a young girl, dressed in a pretty green silk gown, entered the room.

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

The old woman hid me behind a large cask, and scarcely had she done this when the robbers returned home, dragging a young girl along with them.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

“Why, because Annie's a charming young girl, and the old Doctor—Doctor Strong, I mean—is not quite a charming young boy,” said Mr. Jack Maldon, laughing.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Inside the house we were met by the elderly Cornish housekeeper, Mrs. Porter, who, with the aid of a young girl, looked after the wants of the family.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I dare say I am merely a foolish woman with a young girl's fancies.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)