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Radium Girls

Radium Girls is the plural of Radium Girl.

Meaning of Radium Girl

Noun

Radium Girl (plural Radium Girls)

  1. (US, historical) A female factory worker who contracted radiation poisoning from luminous paint (containing radium) used in watch dials in the early 20th century.

Questions about Radium Girls

What is Radium Girls the plural of?
Radium Girls is the plural of Radium Girl.

Words near Radium Girls in the dictionary

  1. radium dial
  2. radium dials
  3. radium emanation
  4. radium fluoride
  5. Radium Girl
  6. Radium Girls
  7. radium hydroxide
  8. radium jaw
  9. radiumed
  10. radiuming
  11. radiumization

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Radium Girls (page history and authors); Radium Girl (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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