schoolgirl

/ˈskuːlɡɜː(ɹ)l/

schoolgirl noun: a girl attending school.

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Noun

schoolgirl (plural schoolgirls)

A girl attending school.
- That he married the wrong sister (as is sometimes suggested) is scarcely a feasible explanation, for Mary was hardly more than a schoolgirl when Dickens first came into the Hogarth family.1975, John Greaves, Dickens at Doughty Street, page 33
- Jessica expected to find her mother in her office, talking to Norm. Lydia had been on the phone a lot lately, off whispering in a corner, like a schoolgirl with a secret crush.2006, Porter Shreve, Drives Like a Dream

Verb

schoolgirl (third-person singular simple present schoolgirls, present participle schoolgirling, simple past and past participle schoolgirled)

(rare, transitive) To restrain in a schoolgirl pin.
- Victoria & Nidia beat Stratus & Kim in 3:45 when Victoria schoolgirled Kim.2004, Wrestling Observer Newsletter, page 57
- She tags herself in only to get schoolgirled for the pin.2017, James Dixon, Arnold Furious, Bob Dahlstrom, The Raw Files: 2001, page 121

schoolgirl meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Bengali and Sanskrit

schoolgirl in Hindi

schoolgirl: छात्रा chātrā

schoolgirl in Tamil

schoolgirl, female disciple: மாணாக்கி māṇākki

schoolgirl in Bengali

স্কুলছাত্রী

schoolgirl in Sanskrit

schoolgirl: छात्रा chātrā

More languagesFewer languages

schoolgirl in Arabic: تِلْمِيذَة tilmīḏa
schoolgirl in Vietnamese: nữ sinh

Examples of schoolgirl in a sentence

At puberty he began to worship an occasional schoolgirl from afar, like most middle-class boys.
Kaitlyn hits a snap suplex and follows up with a schoolgirl pin for a two count.
Bernard Tynan had used witchwork to lure a young schoolgirl into his house, where he’d murdered her.

All 21 example sentences with schoolgirl

Forms of schoolgirl

Noun
plural	schoolgirls
Verb
third-person singular present	schoolgirls
present participle	schoolgirling
past participle	schoolgirled
past	schoolgirled

Plural of schoolgirl: schoolgirls

Origin of schoolgirl

Compound of school + girl.

Words formed from schoolgirl

Phrases with schoolgirl

schoolgirl pins

Questions about schoolgirl

What does schoolgirl mean?: Schoolgirl means a girl attending school.
What is schoolgirl in Hindi?: Schoolgirl in Hindi is छात्रा (chātrā). See Schoolgirl meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is schoolgirl?: Schoolgirl can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce schoolgirl?: Schoolgirl is pronounced /ˈskuːlɡɜː(ɹ)l/.
What is the plural of schoolgirl?: The plural of schoolgirl is schoolgirls.

Words near schoolgirl in the dictionary

Adapted from Wiktionary: schoolgirl (page history and authors); छात्रा (Hindi) (page history and authors); மாணாக்கி (Tamil) (page history and authors); schoolgirl (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); छात्रा (Sanskrit) (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.

Last updated: 2026-09-02

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