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schoolgirl

UK/ˈskuːlɡɜː(ɹ)l/US/ˈskuːlɡɜː(ɹ)l/
nounB2Common in everyday speech and writing · #6,199 of 15,258neutral

Other forms: schoolgirls

A schoolgirl is a girl who attends school. A group of schoolgirls.

As an adjective it means naive or unsophisticated, as in a schoolgirl error. The word is disappearing from careful writing, which prefers pupil or student.

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Definitions of schoolgirl

  1. 1nounschoolgirlA girl who attends school.B2

    “She had kept the same friends since she was a schoolgirl.”

schoolgirl is a person.

Where it comes from

  1. Proto-Indo-European

    *seǵʰ-

  2. English, today

    schoolgirl

school + girl.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

schoolgirl in the wild

  • Filippa is a Danish apple cultivar, created by schoolgirl Filippa Johannsen in Hundstrup, on the island of Funen.

    Filippa (apple)

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.