4  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Girl  \Girl\,  n.  [OE.  girle,  gerle,  gurle,  a  girl  (in  sense  1): 
  cf  LG  g["o]r  child.] 
  1.  A  young  person  of  either  sex;  a  child.  [Obs.]  --Chaucer. 
 
  2.  A  female  child,  from  birth  to  the  age  of  puberty;  a  young 
  maiden. 
 
  3.  A  female  servant;  a  maidservant.  [U.  S.] 
 
  4.  (Zo["o]l.)  A  roebuck  two  years  old  [Prov.  Eng.] 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  girl 
  n  1:  a  young  woman;  "a  young  lady  of  18"  [syn:  {miss},  {missy},  {young 
  lady},  {young  woman},  {fille}] 
  2:  a  youthful  female  person;  "the  baby  was  a  girl";  "the  girls 
  were  just  learning  to  ride  a  tricycle"  [syn:  {female  child}, 
  {child},  {little  girl}]  [ant:  {male  child},  {male  child}] 
  3:  a  female  human  offspring;  "her  daughter  cared  for  her  in  her 
  old  age"  [syn:  {daughter}]  [ant:  {son},  {son}] 
  4:  a  girl  or  young  woman  with  whom  a  man  is  romantically 
  involved;  "his  girlfriend  kicked  him  out"  [syn:  {girlfriend}, 
  {lady  friend}] 
  5:  a  friendly  informal  reference  to  a  grown  woman;  "Mrs.  Smith 
  was  just  one  of  the  girls" 
 
  From  The  Free  On-line  Dictionary  of  Computing  (13  Mar  01)  [foldoc]: 
 
  GIRL 
 
  Graph  Information  Retrieval  Language.  A  language  for  handling 
  {directed  graph}s. 
 
  ["Graph  Information  Retrieval  Language",  S.  Berkowitz  Report 
  76-0085,  Naval  Ship  Res  Dev  Center,  (Feb  1976)]. 
 
  (1994-11-02) 
 
 
 
  From  V.E.R.A.  --  Virtual  Entity  of  Relevant  Acronyms  13  March  2001  [vera]: 
 
  GIRL 
  Generalized  Information  Retrieval  Language 
 
 

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