Jill

Meaning

Name

1. A female given name from Latin.
2. (abbreviation, alt-of, clipping) A female given name from Latin.
3. A 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 flurt-gills (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.