Girls
nounMore than one female child or young woman.
How to spell girls
5 letters · 1 syllable
How to pronounce girls
What does girls mean?
- nounMore than one female child or young woman.
Girls in a sentence
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The two girls walked to school together every morning.
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Several girls joined the new football team this season.
Where does girls come from?
Language of origin: Germanic
The word girl comes from Middle English gurle or girle, which originally meant a young person of either sex, not specifically female. Its deeper roots are uncertain, though it is often linked to Old English or Low German words for a child, and some scholars connect it to a Proto-Germanic source meaning simply a young one. Over the 1300s and 1400s the meaning narrowed to refer specifically to a female child, and that is the sense that survives today. The plural is formed in the ordinary way by adding -s, giving girls. Because the vowel sound and spelling have stayed stable for centuries, the word holds few traps for modern writers.
How the word is built
- girl (young female)
- -s (plural)
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