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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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