Thesaurus talk:girl

seeming contradiction
How is woman BOTH a synonym and antonym for GIRL? -- special:contribs/76.114.170.160 19:03, 2 January 2012‎
 * They share a gender and each is sometimes used synecdochically to indicate the other ("she's a precocious young woman" and "for a long time the rule of the voting booth was 'no girls allowed'"), but are on opposite sides of the adult/child line (or adult/adolescent under the Roman and related systems). Arlo Barnes (talk) 21:47, 4 October 2020 (UTC)
 * What does the "Roman system" have to do with the Modern English word "girl"? Is there any evidence that the "Roman system" was ever used by a country that spoke the Modern English language? Tharthan (talk) 06:33, 6 October 2020 (UTC)