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YOUNG WOMAN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A young female
Example:
a young lady of 18
Synonyms:
fille; girl; miss; missy; young lady; young woman
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("young woman" is a kind of...):
adult female; woman (an adult female person (as opposed to a man))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "young woman"):
working girl (a young woman who is employed)
valley girl (a girl who grew up in the tract housing in the San Fernando Valley)
hoyden; romp; tomboy (a girl who behaves in a boyish manner)
sweater girl (a girl with an attractive bust who wears tight sweaters)
soubrette (a pert or flirtatious young girl)
shop girl (a young female shop assistant)
sex bomb; sex kitten; sexpot (a young woman who is thought to have sex appeal)
rosebud ((a literary reference to) a pretty young girl)
ring girl (a young woman who holds up cards indicating the number of the next round at prize fights)
peri (a beautiful and graceful girl)
party girl (an attractive young woman hired to attend parties and entertain men)
mill-girl (a girl who works in a mill)
May queen; queen of the May (the girl chosen queen of a May Day festival)
maid; maiden (an unmarried girl (especially a virgin))
jeune fille; lass; lassie; young girl (a girl or young woman who is unmarried)
Gibson girl (the idealized American girl of the 1890s as pictured by C. D. Gibson)
gamine (a girl of impish appeal)
gal (alliterative term for girl (or woman))
flapper (a young woman in the 1920s who flaunted her unconventional conduct and dress)
bird; chick; dame; doll; skirt; wench (informal terms for a (young) woman)
colleen (an Irish girl)
chit (a dismissive term for a girl who is immature or who lacks respect)
chachka; tchotchke; tchotchkeleh; tsatske; tshatshke ((Yiddish) an attractive, unconventional woman)
bimbo (a young woman indulged by rich and powerful older men)
belle (a young woman who is the most charming and beautiful of several rivals)
Context examples:
Young women should always be properly guarded and attended, according to their situation in life.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
My dear Mrs. Allen, I long to introduce them; they will be so delighted to see you: the tallest is Isabella, my eldest; is not she a fine young woman?
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
In the moonlight opposite me were three young women, ladies by their dress and manner.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
One young woman I know left a huge PR job eight years ago to open her own business.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
“A woman comes and she coaxes this young man out of his room. Do you know any young woman who had an influence over him?”
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
These tumors usually occur in teenage girls or young women, usually affect just one ovary, and can be benign (not cancer) or malignant (cancer).
(Ovarian germ cell tumor, NCI Dictionary)
A young woman opened the door, who proved to be Mrs. Tangey’s eldest daughter.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Martin noticed him no more that evening, except once when he observed him chaffing with great apparent success with several of the young women.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
He had hardly spoken before there rushed into the room one of the most lovely young women that I have ever seen in my life.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
This difference is important because it suggests that we may need to develop tools for predicting breast cancer risk that are specific to young women.
(Breast cancer protection from pregnancy starts decades later, National Institutes of Health)
