filly

noun

ˈfi-lē How to pronounce filly (audio)
Definition of fillynext
as in girl
a female person who has not yet reached adulthood she's still a filly, so she has plenty of time to decide what she wants to do in life

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Recent Examples of filly The race is a prelude to the Preakness, featuring 3-year-old fillies (female race horses). — Baltimore Sun Staff, Baltimore Sun, 16 May 2026 The annual race comes a day after the Black-Eyed Susan race, which features 3-year-old fillies. — Jt Moodee Lockman, CBS News, 14 May 2026 In 2022, Gretchen and Roy Jackson bought a filly for $240,000. — Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 9 May 2026 Friday belongs to the Kentucky Oaks, the country’s most famous race for 3-year-old fillies. — Symiah Dorsey, Southern Living, 6 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for filly
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  1. girl
  2. lass
Noun
  • And if that happened to me as a person who had worked in the industry for 15 years at that point, what’s happening to other girls who want to learn how to play bass, who live in Idaho, who don’t even have access to instruments?
    — Selena Fragassi, SPIN, 10 Aug. 2026
  • Their daughter, Josephine, attended a Catholic girls’ school in the Maryland suburbs, and then, like her father, went to Harvard; their son, John, attended a boarding school in Connecticut, and then the University of Miami.
    — Margaret Talbot, New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2026
Definition of girl
Noun
  • The plot imperative of future Irina surviving to play a significant role in later seasons of For All Mankind gives us so much runway to imagine wild twists and turns for this crafty lass.
    — Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 10 July 2026
  • Laborious yet lithe lads and lasses have loyally leapt to luminate the lexical labyrinths of logic locking the lucrative lotto, longing to lure the lavish luxury lying latently in local landmarks.
    — Jared Kaufman, Twin Cities, 28 Jan. 2026
Definition of lass

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