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{
"term": "girl",
"partOfSpeech": "noun",
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "a1",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "a female child",
"cefr": "a1",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "a **little girl** of six"
},
{
"text": "a six-**year-old girl**"
},
{
"text": "a **baby/young/teenage girl**"
},
{
"text": "a **beautiful/clever girl**"
},
{
"text": "When I was a girl, I wanted to be a dancer."
},
{
"text": "Hello, girls and boys!"
},
{
"text": "A group of teenage girls were waiting at the bus stop."
},
{
"text": "One of the girls showed me where to sit."
},
{
"text": "She's a bright little girl."
},
{
"text": "Three people were injured, including a nine-year-old girl."
}
],
"topics": ["Life stages"],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["baby", "little", "small"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "a daughter",
"cefr": "a1",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "They have two girls and a boy."
},
{
"text": "Our youngest girl is at college."
}
],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["baby", "little", "small"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "a young woman",
"labels": "(sometimes offensive)",
"cefr": "a1",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "He married the girl next door."
},
{
"text": "It's a great way to **meet girls**."
},
{
"text": "Alex is not interested in girls yet."
},
{
"text": "Tracey is known for being a party girl."
},
{
"text": "He met a French girl while he was at university."
},
{
"text": "She handed her card over to the girl behind the counter."
},
{
"text": "One of the girls at work told me about it."
}
],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["baby", "little", "small"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 4,
"definition": "the women in a group",
"examples": [
{
"text": "I'm having a night out with the girls."
},
{
"text": "Good morning, girls!"
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 5,
"definition": "a girlfriend",
"labels": "(old-fashioned)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "He’s taking his girl home to meet his parents."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 6,
"definition": "a female worker",
"labels": "(old-fashioned, offensive)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "an office girl"
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "an offensive term for a weak man, who is not brave or confident",
"labels": "(British English, informal)",
"examples": []
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ɡɜːl/",
"audio": "gi/girl/girl__gb_2.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ɡɜːrl/",
"audio": "gi/girl/girl__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "Middle English (denoting a child or young person of either sex): perhaps related to Low German gör ‘child’."
}