Antonyms for schoolgirl


Grammar : Noun
Spell : skool-gurl
Phonetic Transcription : ˈskulˌgɜrl


Definition of schoolgirl

Origin :
  • 1777, from school (n.1) + girl. As an adjective from 1922.
  • As in minor : noun person under legal age of maturity
  • As in school child : noun youth attending school
  • As in girl : noun young female person
Example sentences :
  • "Schoolgirl sentimentality" Meg had called it, and so it was.
  • Extract from : « Jan and Her Job » by L. Allen Harker
  • She was in love with him for a week, in love like a schoolgirl.
  • Extract from : « Therese Raquin » by Emile Zola
  • She was pretty when a baby and prettier still as a schoolgirl.
  • Extract from : « Kent Knowles: Quahaug » by Joseph C. Lincoln
  • "You talk to me as though I were a schoolgirl," she retorted.
  • Extract from : « The Grell Mystery » by Frank Froest
  • Captain Godwin blushed through his coat of tan like a schoolgirl.
  • Extract from : « Boy Scouts in the Philippines » by G. Harvey Ralphson
  • She did not answer at once, and, glancing in her direction, I saw that she had flushed like a schoolgirl.
  • Extract from : « Dross » by Henry Seton Merriman
  • She had been as foolish over him as a schoolgirl in the matter of a matinée idol.
  • Extract from : « The Highgrader » by William MacLeod Raine
  • And then had come a wonderful day, a wonderful thing, into the schoolgirl's life.
  • Extract from : « Warrior Gap » by Charles King
  • The letters, I noticed, were not what the schoolgirl letters had been to her mother.
  • Extract from : « The Spinner's Book of Fiction » by Various
  • The schoolgirl and the trade paper editor wouldn't have been "in it."
  • Extract from : « The Pianolist » by Gustav Kobb

Synonyms for schoolgirl

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