Jill

Meaning

Name

1. A female given name from Latin.
2. A female given name from Latin.
3. Generic use for any female (as Sheila in Australian English), especially paired (since the 15th c., compare Ienken and Iulyan) with the male Jack.

Noun

1. A young woman; a sweetheart; like the variant spelling Gill it was also associated with various assertive uses of the term flirt, as in flirtgigg (used by William Shakespeare for a 'woman of light or loose behavior').
2. A jillstrap: the female counterpart to a jockstrap.

Synonyms

colleen

damsel

daughter

girl

👧

lassie

maid

maiden

wench

Pronounced as (IPA)

/d͡ʒɪl/

Etymology

A variant of Gill, diminutive of Gillian, a medieval form of Juliana, ultimately from Latin.