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# girl

«girl» in Mova's school dictionary: **a female child or a young woman** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (girl, girls)

### meaning for a pupil

A girl is a female child or a young woman. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/girl/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

people counted in a class or group, often next to boys; girls + boys = children; phrases: «a little girl», «girls and boys», «schoolgirl», «the girls' team»

### examples

- There are 16 girls and 14 boys in the class. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/girl/#x1)
- Each girl brought 2 pencils. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/girl/#x2)
- How many more girls than boys? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/girl/#x3)
- The girls sold 40 tickets. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/girl/#x4)
- The girl in the red coat is my cousin. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/girl/#x5)
- My aunt has two girls and a boy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/girl/#x6)
- The girls' team won the relay. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/girl/#x7)
- When Gran was a girl, there were no phones. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/girl/#x8)
- The little girl was called Karen. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/girl/#x9)

### note

Plural: girls. Possessive: girl's (one girl), girls' (many girls). A thing counted. Girls + boys = children. Trap: «how many more girls than boys» is a difference.

### In the corpora

- [Bridesmaids are friends or relatives who help the bride and walk with her, and children can be flower girls or page boys.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/13-dates-engagements-and-weddings/13/)
- [She whispers to her mum that the girls watched a scary film and she lay awake till three, listening to every creak.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/56-scary-films-nightmares-and-sad-endings/5/)
- [A bot has no body, so it is neither a boy nor a girl; a name and voice are design choices.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/2-guessing-the-next-word/11/)
- [Warmer sand gives more girl hatchlings and cooler sand more boys, and bright beach lights can lead hatchlings the wrong way.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/31-turtles-and-tortoises/13/)
- [Ah, that's the great puzzle!", and thinks of girls her age she might have been changed into.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/3-alice-ch2-part1-curiouser-and-curiouser/15/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «girl» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/girl/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.