girl:
(plural: ‘girls‘; pronunciation: the letter ‘g’ is said with a ‘g’ sound as in “gun”; male: ‘boy’)

a girl with her mother
any female child (between the age of 0 and 18);
a daughter of a person;
a female sweetheart or friend of a man (a girlfriend):
a woman, usually young and good looking (but this usage is not liked by everybody);
a loving or affectionate form of addressing a female child or a young or old woman;
a woman servant, worker or employee (but this usage is not liked by everybody),
Nikki is a good girl; she studies hard, assists her mother in the kitchen and looks after her young sister.
A girl shows more attachment to her father before reaching puberty, but once she is of age and gets married, she shows more dependence on her mother!
Mr Brown has three children, a boy and two girls.
It’s quite unfortunate that we see more and more items of news about girls being molested, assaulted or raped.

