college girl
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2.0
- noun
- /ˈkɑlɪdʒ ɡɜrl/
- Informal
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estudiante universitaria
- I'm just trying to help out the local college girls.
- smart college girl
- pretty college girl
- young college girl
Examples
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The college girls come to the island every summer looking for local color and fun.
Fiction book (2002) -
I was crazy in love with this college girl.
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Thought you were a college girl.
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Jack, you told me you were seeing a college girl named Dee Dee.
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College girls wear less makeup.
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I was in a dorm, and I was surrounded by college girls.
Fiction book (2000) -
I may go down to Pittsburg to see the college girl if she finishes studying.
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Say, is that the pretty college girl you've been bragging about?
Fiction book (2001) -
She's a college girl.
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The college girl was excited to start her first semester at university.
Synonyms
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9.1
A now old-fashioned word for a female student at a mixed school
A woman who studies at a college with both men and women
How Educated
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a female student at a college' is directly and compositionally derived from 'college' (institution of higher education) + 'girl' (female person), so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily infer the intended sense. While 'girl' can carry minor age or register nuances, the compound follows a common cross-linguistic pattern of noun + noun/attributive modifier and is therefore transparent.
Etymology
College girl comes from joining college (a school for older students) and girl (a young woman). It creates a simple picture of 'a female student', which is why the phrase means that today.