Library / English Dictionary

LASS

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A girl or young woman who is unmarried

Synonyms:

jeune fille; lass; lassie; young girl

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("lass" is a kind of...):

fille; girl; miss; missy; young lady; young woman (a young female)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "lass"):

bobby-socker; bobbysoxer (an adolescent girl wearing bobby socks (common in the 1940s))

Lolita (a sexually precocious young girl)

Credits

 Context examples: 

By George, lass, when this leg of mine is sound we’ll bear down for a spell to Brighton, and if there is a smarter frock than yours upon the Steyne, may I never tread a poop again.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Hola! there is la petite peeping from behind the door. A toi, aussi, ma petite! Mon Dieu! but the lass has a good color!”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Aylward, with a fishing lass on either arm, was vowing constancy alternately to her on the right and her on the left, while big John towered in the rear with a little chubby maiden enthroned upon his great shoulder, her soft white arm curled round his shining headpiece.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)