What is "girl"

Girl \Girl\ (g[~e]rl), n. [OE. girle, gerle, gurle, a girl (in sense 1): cf. LG. g["o]r child.]

1. A young person of either sex; a child. [Obs.]
   --Chaucer.

2. A female child, from birth to the age of puberty; a young maiden.

3. A female servant; a maidservant. [U. S.]

4. (Zo["o]l.) A roebuck two years old. [Prov. Eng.]

c.1300, gyrle "child" (of either sex), of unknown origin; current scholarship [OED says] leans toward an unrecorded Old English *gyrele, from Proto-Germanic *gurwilon-, diminutive of *gurwjoz (apparently also represented by Low German gære "boy, girl," Norwegian dialectal gorre, Swedish dialectal gurre "small child," though the exact relationship, if any, between all these is obscure), from PIE *ghwrgh-, also found in Greek parthenos "virgin." But this is highly conjectural. And Liberman (2008) writes:\n\nGirl does not go back to any Old English or Old Germanic form. It is part of a large group of Germanic words whose root begins with a g or k and ends in r. The final consonant in girl is a diminutive suffix. The g-r words denote young animals, children, and all kinds of creatures considered immature, worthless, or past their prime.\n\nAnother candidate is Old English gierela "garment" (for possible sense evolution in this theory, compare brat). Like boy, lass, lad it is of obscure origin. "Probably most of them arose as jocular transferred uses of words that had originally different meaning" [OED]. Specific meaning of "female child" is late 14c. Applied to "any young unmarried woman" since mid-15c. Meaning "sweetheart" is from 1640s. Girl next door as a type of unflashy attractiveness is recorded by 1953.\n\nDoris [Day] was a big vocalist even before she hit the movies in 1948. There, as the latest movie colony "girl next door," sunny-faced Doris soon became a leading movie attraction as well as the world's top female recording star. "She's the girl next door, all right," said one Hollywood admirer. "Next door to the bank."

["Life" magazine, Dec. 22, 1958]

n. A young female human; (in contrast to ''boy''), a female child or young adult.

1. n. a young woman; "a young lady of 18" [syn: miss, missy, young lady, young woman, fille]

2. a youthful female person; "the baby was a girl"; "the girls were just learning to ride a tricycle" [syn: female child, little girl] [ant: male child, male child]

3. a female human offspring; "her daughter cared for her in her old age" [syn: daughter] [ant: son, son]

4. a girl or young woman with whom a man is romantically involved; "his girlfriend kicked him out" [syn: girlfriend, lady friend]

5. a friendly informal reference to a grown woman; "Mrs. Smith was just one of the girls"

A girl is a young female human.

Girl or The Girl may also refer to:

Girl were an English glam metal band formed in London, UK in 1979, which split up in 1982 with band members going on to join Def Leppard and L.A. Guns among others.

A girl is a female human from birth through childhood and adolescence to attainment of adulthood when she becomes a woman. The term girl may also be used to mean a young woman, and is often used as a synonym for daughter.

"Girl" is a song written by John Lennon (credited to Lennon/McCartney) and performed by the Beatles on their 1965 album Rubber Soul. "Girl" was the last complete song recorded for that album.

"Girl" is a song recorded by American girl group Destiny's Child. Columbia Records released it as the third single from the group's fourth studio album Destiny Fulfilled (2004) on January 16, 2005. The band co-wrote the song with Darkchild, Ric Rude, Angela Beyince, Sean Garrett, and Patrick "9th Wonder" Douthit; the latter co-produced it with band members Beyoncé and Kelly Rowland. Sampling "Ocean of Thoughts and Dreams" by The Dramatics, the soul song was written about an abusive relationship Rowland went through during the time of writing.

The song received mostly positive reviews by music critics who praised its composition and lyrical content. "Girl" had a moderate success in the US and across most European countries in comparison to the group's other singles; in the former it peaked at number 23 on its Billboard Hot 100 chart and was certified gold. It was more successful in the UK, Ireland, New Zealand and Australia where it peaked inside the top ten on the countries' respective singles charts. A music video for the song was directed by Bryan Barber and it depicted a story inspired by Sex and the City. The song was performed live by the band in 2005 at three televised appearances as well as during their final tour Destiny Fulfilled... and Lovin' It. In 2015, "Girl" was sampled on " The Girl Is Mine" by British music duo 99 Souls.

"Girl" is the third single from Houston rapper Paul Wall's album The Peoples Champ. It samples the song " Oh Girl" by The Chi-Lites. It peaked at number 35 on Billboard Hot 100, making it his highest-charting solo single to date. The video of the single also featured comedian Katt Williams and actress Meagan Good.

"Girl" is a Beck song from the 2005 album Guero. It was released as the second single from the album in July 2005. The video for the song, created by Motion Theory, was inspired by the MAD fold-ins by Al Jaffee. The song begins with a simple chiptune melody. The rest of the song consists of acoustic guitars and drums.

Girl is the third studio album by Australian singer Dannii Minogue. It was released by Eternal Records on 8 September 1997 in the United Kingdom. In November 2007, the album was reissued with a bonus disc of remixes by Rhino Entertainment. The album had four singles, including the UK Dance Chart number ones " All I Wanna Do", " Everything I Wanted", " Disremembrance" and the Australian-only single, " Coconut". When the album was reissued in 2007, Girl had to be reprinted as it sold more than expected following Minogue's popularity as a judge on The X Factor. The album marked a huge reinvention of Minogue's music style, showing a transition into the techno world.

Girl is the debut album by Eskimo Joe, released on 20 August 2001. The album reached number 29 on the Australian (ARIA) Album Charts and went gold. The album was nominated for four ARIA Awards.

The album features the two heavily played Triple J songs " Wake Up" and " Who Sold Her Out", with the latter reaching number 94 on the ARIA Singles Charts. "Sydney Song" featured on an advertisement for Kit Kat, in which a man carried a novelty sized Kit Kat around, to promote the Kit Kat Chunky. This also assisted in sales of the band's album, Girl.

The Girl mansion (女宿, pinyin: Nǚ Xiù) is one of the Twenty-eight mansions of the Chinese constellations. It is one of the northern mansions of the Black Tortoise.

Girl is a 1998 American drama film starring Dominique Swain, Christopher Masterson, Selma Blair, Tara Reid, Summer Phoenix, Portia de Rossi and Sean Patrick Flanery. It was based on the novel of the same name, written by Blake Nelson. It was written by Blake Nelson and David E. Tolchinsky and directed by Jonathan Kahn.

"Girl" was the final single released from The Time's debut album. Like most of the album, the song was recorded in Prince's home studio in April 1981, and was produced, arranged, composed and performed by Prince with Morris Day later adding his lead vocals. The single reached number 49 on the U.S. R&B singles chart.

The tender ballad is built around the piano and synthesizers and features live drumming and bass. The emotional lyrics delivered by Day tell of a difficult breakup and that he is still in love with the song's subject. Prince's backing vocals are unmistakable, especially in the chorus.

The U.S. 7" single was backed with an edit of album track, "The Stick", a funky number which was written by Revolution member Lisa Coleman (uncredited), who also provided background vocals. Another uncredited Revolution member was Doctor Fink, who provided synthesizer solos for the track. A 12" single was not released.

Though not one of their biggest hits, "Girl" is often played in concert and a live version of the song recorded at the House of Blues in 1998 and was included on Morris Day's 2004 album, It's About Time.

Prince wrote a completely different song entitled "Girl" in 1985, which became the B-side of the " America" single in the U.S. and the B-side of " Pop Life" in Europe (both released in 1985).

"Girl (Why You Wanna Make Me Blue)" is a 1964 hit single by The Temptations for the Gordy ( Motown) label. It was the group's first A-side release to be produced by Norman Whitfield, who co-wrote the song with Edward Holland, Jr. of the Holland-Dozier-Holland songwriting team. With Eddie Kendricks singing lead for the third single in a row, it peaked on the Billboard Hot 100 Pop charts in the top 30 at number 26.

As the narrator of the up-tempo song, Kendricks tells his girl "I love you, girl, with all my heart and soul/ I can't understand why you treat me cold", and now his "heart feels the pain" cause by her mistreatment of him. This single would be Kendricks' last as lead on an A-side until " Get Ready" in 1966, and the last for Whitfield as producer until " Ain't Too Proud to Beg"; this would due to the fact that "Get Ready", composed and produced by Smokey Robinson, had missed the Pop Top 20 just like this single did.

The next Temptations single, " My Girl", would be the first to feature David Ruffin as lead and would be produced by Robinson. Ruffin, up to this point, had only sung lead on stage and on a few unreleased tracks, otherwise singing backgrounds behind Kendricks and then main lead singer Paul Williams. When "My Girl" hit number 1 on the R&B and Pop Charts in 1965, it signaled the continuing of Robinson as the group’s main producer, and the start of Ruffin's run as The Temptations' main lead singer.

'Girl' is the sixth album from Australian rock-grunge band Magic Dirt. Produced by Magic Dirt and Lindsay Gravina, at Birdland Studios, Melbourne.

The album was released on 5 July 2008, debuting at #7 on the Australian Independent Music chart. 'Romy', a song the band had been playing live since the Beast tour, served as lead single from the album. In support of the album, the band embarked on the extensive 'No Sleep Til Christmas' tour, starting in July and ending in December 2008. The tour saw dates in all major Australian cities, and a large number of shows in regional centres.

"Girl" is a short story written by Jamaica Kincaid that was included in At the Bottom of the River (1983). It appeared in the June 26, 1978 issue of The New Yorker.

Girl is a 1994 novel written by Blake Nelson. The book chronicles teen girl Andrea Marr's exploration of the Northwest music scene at the height of the " grunge" revolution.

It was made into a film of the same name starring Dominique Swain, Portia de Rossi, and Selma Blair in 1998.

Portions of the novel first appeared in Sassy Magazine.

Two more installments of the GIRL Series are available on Amazon Kindle.

Girl is a three-issue comic book limited series written by Peter Milligan and drawn by Duncan Fegredo. It was published in 1996 by Vertigo comics, an imprint of DC Comics.

Girl or Girls, in comics, may refer to:

• Girl (Vertigo), a Vertigo mini-series by Peter Milligan
• Girls (comics), an Image Comics series by the Luna Brothers
• Girl Comics, a title from Timely Comics and Marvel Comics
• Girl, a British comic magazine from Hulton Press
• Girl, a 1991 title from Rip Off Press
• Girl, a series of trade collections of The Girl Presents published by Amerotica
• Girl One and Girl Two, characters from Alan Moore's Top Ten

It may also refer to:

• 100 Girls (comics), a series by Arcana Press
• Alpha Girl, a series by Image Comics
• Bad Girls (comics), a 2003 DC Comics series
• Danger Girl, a series from Wildstorm
• Girl-Bot, a character from AC Comics
• Girl Confessions a title from Atlas Comics
• Girl Crazy (comics), a series by Dark Horse Comics
• Girl Genius, a Steampunk webcomic
• Girls' Love Stories, a DC Comics title from 1949
• Girls' Romances, a DC Comics title from 1950
• Marvel Girl, a number of different Marvel Comics characters
• Tank Girl

Girl was a weekly comic magazine for girls published from 1951 to 1964. It was launched by Hulton Press on 2 November 1951 as a sister paper to the Eagle, and lasted through Hultons' acquisition by Odhams Press in 1959 and Odhams' merger into IPC in 1963. Its final issue was dated 3 October 1964, after which it was merged into Princess. Another comic of the same name was published by IPC from 1981 to 1990, during which time Dreamer and Tammy were merged into it.

"Girl" is the 8th single by British singer/actor Davy Jones, written by Charles Fox and Norman Gimbel. It is not Jones' most successful single ("Rainy Jane", peaking at 52 on Billboard Hot 100), but his most remembered one, appearing in the Brady Bunch episode "Getting Davy Jones" and again in The Brady Bunch Movie.

Girl is a 1994 Australian film about four teenagers who enter a magazine photo competition.

Girl (stylized as G I R L) is the second studio album by American recording artist and record producer Pharrell Williams. The album was released on March 3, 2014, through Williams' label i Am Other and Columbia Records. Girl was Williams' first studio album since his 2006 debut, In My Mind. It contains appearances by Justin Timberlake, Miley Cyrus, Daft Punk, JoJo and Alicia Keys.

Girl received generally positive reviews from music critics. It peaked at number one in 12 countries worldwide, also peaking in the top 10 of the charts of 17 other countries. The album has sold 591,000 copies in the United States as of February 2015. The album's lead single was the Academy Award-nominated " Happy" (from the Despicable Me 2 soundtrack), which was a huge worldwide success, selling more than 13.9 million units (sales plus equivalent streams) worldwide and becoming one of the best-selling singles of all time. Follow-up singles " Marilyn Monroe", " Come Get It Bae" and " Gust of Wind" have achieved moderate success. At the 57th Grammy Awards, the album was nominated for Album of the Year and won Best Urban Contemporary Album. "Happy" also won Best Pop Solo Performance and Best Music Video.

"Girl" is a song recorded by Taiwanese Mandopop singer-songwriter William Wei. The song was written by Wei and arranged by JerryC. It was released as a single by Linfair Records on 28 May 2015. "Girl" was released in support of Wei's third concert, Free That Girl. It was later used as the opening theme song of television series, Baby Daddy.

"Girl" received positive reviews and was a commercial success. The single peaked at number 3 on KKBOX Digital Music Chart. At the 2015 KKBOX Year-end chart, "Girl" was the 9th most streamed song in Taiwan. It was also ranked 47th on the Hit FM Top 100 songs in 2015. It also topped the radio charts in China, Malaysia and Singapore.

The music video featuring Xie Yilin was released on 2 June 2016. It was directed by Kidding .