What is another word for lasses?

Pronunciation: [lˈasɪz] (IPA)

Lasses is a term that refers to young women. However, there are many other words that can be used as synonyms for this term. For example, one can use the term 'maidens' which refers to young unmarried women or 'damsels' which refers to young women in distress. Other synonyms for lasses include 'lasses' which refers to young women from Scotland, 'lassies' which is another term used for young women in Scotland, 'girls' which refers to young females in general, 'lassoos' which refers to young women who are playfully flirtatious and 'maidenheads' which refers to young women who are innocent and pure. These words and phrases can be used interchangeably to refer to young women in different contexts and settings.

What are the hypernyms for Lasses?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Usage examples for Lasses

Inside, no doubt they admired the rows of clean white beds, some of them quite little cots, others big enough for almost full-grown bouncing lasses; they stood with hushed breath before his portrait in the refectory hall or his bust on the stairs; and perhaps they patted the cheeks of some pretty inmate and asked if, when saying her prayers, she always included the name of the patron saint.
"The Devil's Garden"
W. B. Maxwell
Ah, the Scotch lasses were fine!
"The Eye of Dread"
Payne Erskine
The lads and lasses outside did not see the caress, but perhaps, after all, it was not very wonderful thought-reading.
"The Debit Account"
Oliver Onions

Famous quotes with Lasses

  • I do not like poems that resemble hay compressed into a geometrically perfect cube. I like it when the hay, unkempt, uncombed, with dry berries mixed in it, thrown together gaily and freely, bounces along atop some truck-and more, if there are some lovely and healthy lasses atop the hay-and better yet if the branches catch at the hay, and some of it tumbles to the road.
    Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko
  • There's nought but care on ev'ry han', In every hour that passes, O: What signifies the life o' man, An' then she made the lasses, O.
    Robert Burns
  • Auld Nature swears, the lovely dears Her noblest work she classes, O: Her prentice han' she tried on man, An' then she made the lasses, O.
    Robert Burns
  • Green grow the rashes, O; Green grow the rashes, O; The sweetest hours that e'er I spend Are spent among the lasses, O.
    Robert Burns

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