birthday girl en · NOUN
Meanings
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A woman or girl who is celebrating their birthday.
The climax of the celebration for the birthday girl is her first dance. A symbolic enactment of her departure from childhood takes place: […] Afterward, the birthday girl dances with all of the young chamberlanes, marking her entry into womanhood.
2002, Lee Stacy, “Quinciñera”, in Mexico and the United States, volume 3, page 685:When you're photographing the birthday girl, you use a large aperture that has an f/stop of f/3.5, which gives you a very shallow depth of field and draws the viewer's attention to the honored guest.
2011, Doug Sahlin, Digital SLR Settings & Shortcuts For Dummies, unnumbered page:A teenage girl's 16th birthday is supposed to include a big party, the perfect boyfriend and a shiny new car, all wrapped up with a bright red bow. But what happens when your family forget your big day because they are consumed with planning your older sister's wedding? Ask high school sophomore Samantha Baker (Molly Ringwald), the birthday girl in John Hughes's 1984 romantic teen comedy Sixteen Candles.
2011, Philip C. Dimare, editor, Movies in American History: An Encyclopedia, page 450:
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Translations (18)
hu születésnapos lány (woman or girl who is celebrating their birthday) · pt aniversariante (woman or girl who is celebrating their birthday) · sh рођенданка (woman or girl who is celebrating their birthday) · it festeggiata (woman or girl who is celebrating their birthday) · sh славњеница (woman or girl who is celebrating their birthday) · tr doğum günü kızı (woman or girl who is celebrating their birthday) · pl solenizantka (woman or girl who is celebrating their birthday) · is afmælisbarn (woman or girl who is celebrating their birthday) · de Geburtstagskind (woman or girl who is celebrating their birthday) · nb gebursdagsbarn (woman or girl who is celebrating their birthday) · sv födelsedagsbarn (woman or girl who is celebrating their birthday) · es cumpleañera (woman or girl who is celebrating their birthday) · uk імени́нниця (woman or girl who is celebrating their birthday) · nl jarige (woman or girl who is celebrating their birthday) · hu születésnapos nő (woman or girl who is celebrating their birthday) · es dueña del santo (woman or girl who is celebrating their birthday) · fi syntymäpäiväsankari (woman or girl who is celebrating their birthday) · nl Jarige Jet (woman or girl who is celebrating their birthday)