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SCHOOLGIRL
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Dictionary entry overview: What does schoolgirl mean?
• SCHOOLGIRL (noun)
The noun SCHOOLGIRL has 1 sense:
1. a girl attending school
Familiarity information: SCHOOLGIRL used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A girl attending school
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("schoolgirl" is a kind of...):
female child; girl; little girl (a youthful female person)
Context examples
Therefore, to use the expressive, if not elegant, language of a schoolgirl, "He was as nervous as a witch and as cross as a bear".
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
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