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LITTLE GIRL
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A youthful female person
Example:
the girls were just learning to ride a tricycle
Synonyms:
female child; girl; little girl
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("little girl" is a kind of...):
female; female person (a person who belongs to the sex that can have babies)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "little girl"):
Campfire Girl (a girl who is a member of Campfire Girls; for girls age 7-18)
farm girl (a girl who has grown up on a farm)
flower girl (a young girl who carries flowers in a (wedding) procession)
moppet (a little girl (usually one you are fond of))
schoolgirl (a girl attending school)
Scout (a Boy Scout or Girl Scout)
Context examples:
In the corner, stooping over a desk, there sat what appeared to be a little girl.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He shook his head, and asked, "The little girl—does it die?" It was my turn for silence.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
“I remember my father giving me a dollar once, when I was a little girl, for remaining absolutely quiet for five minutes.”
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Little girl, your honesty and pluck have made me a friend, and that's rarer than a lover; it's more unselfish anyhow.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Mrs. Weston's friends were all made happy by her safety; and if the satisfaction of her well-doing could be increased to Emma, it was by knowing her to be the mother of a little girl.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
As to his remark about his deserts, it was also not unnatural if you consider that he stood beside the dead body of his father, and that there is no doubt that he had that very day so far forgotten his filial duty as to bandy words with him, and even, according to the little girl whose evidence is so important, to raise his hand as if to strike him.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I think my little girl is learning this.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
The eldest Miss Larkins is not a little girl.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
The little girl gave a cry of amazement and looked about her, her eyes growing bigger and bigger at the wonderful sights she saw.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
The little girl took the piece of wood, rolled it up in a little cloth, and went on again until she came to the glass-mountain, and found the door shut.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
