schoolgirl

[skool-gurl]

noun

1. a girl attending school.

Other Word Forms

• schoolgirlish adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of schoolgirl¹

First recorded in 1770–80; school ¹ + girl

Example Sentences

Only three years had passed since she was a schoolgirl in geography class at Swanburne, doodling funny pictures in the margins of Cecily’s notebook.

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“I must restrain myself from acting like a schoolgirl, for those days are behind me.”

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"We had to go on a bus every day to different schools and get used to different schools and different classrooms than what we were used to," said one of the schoolgirls.

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In April, a schoolgirl in Chita, Siberia, needed hospital care after overdosing on Molecule.

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Faith plays a goth schoolgirl in the film, Imrie plays a school matron, while Sir Stephen plays himself, as the school quiz master.

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Related Words

• adolescent 
• baby 
• boy 
• child 
• girl 
• infant 
• junior 
• juvenile 
• teenager 
• youngster 
• youth