{
    "term": "girl",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "a female child",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a **little girl** of six"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a six-**year-old girl**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a **baby/young/teenage girl**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a **beautiful/clever girl**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "When I was a girl, I wanted to be a dancer."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Hello, girls and boys!"
                },
                {
                    "text": "A group of teenage girls were waiting at the bus stop."
                },
                {
                    "text": "One of the girls showed me where to sit."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She's a bright little girl."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Three people were injured, including a nine-year-old girl."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Life stages"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["baby", "little", "small"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "a daughter",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "They have two girls and a boy."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Our youngest girl is at college."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["baby", "little", "small"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "a young woman",
            "labels": "(sometimes offensive)",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "He married the girl next door."
                },
                {
                    "text": "It's a great way to **meet girls**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Alex is not interested in girls yet."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Tracey is known for being a party girl."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He met a French girl while he was at university."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She handed her card over to the girl behind the counter."
                },
                {
                    "text": "One of the girls at work told me about it."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["baby", "little", "small"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 4,
            "definition": "the women in a group",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "I'm having a night out with the girls."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Good morning, girls!"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 5,
            "definition": "a girlfriend",
            "labels": "(old-fashioned)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "He’s taking his girl home to meet his parents."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 6,
            "definition": "a female worker",
            "labels": "(old-fashioned, offensive)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "an office girl"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "an offensive term for a weak man, who is not brave or confident",
            "labels": "(British English, informal)",
            "examples": []
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɡɜːl/",
                "audio": "gi/girl/girl__gb_2.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɡɜːrl/",
                "audio": "gi/girl/girl__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Middle English (denoting a child or young person of either sex): perhaps related to Low German gör ‘child’."
}