girls' love

noun

A genre of Japanese media focusing on romantic and/or sexual relationships between female characters.

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Meanings

noungirls' love (uncountable, abbreviation GL)

abbreviation GL

  1. uncountableA genre of Japanese media focusing on romantic and/or sexual relationships between female characters.

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
yuri

Origin

Phono-semantic matching of Japanese ガールズラブ (gāruzu rabu), itself a wasei eigo (和製英語; pseudo-anglicism) derived from girls + love.

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girls' love. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/girls'%20love

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“girls' love.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/girls'%20love. Accessed November 5, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “girls' love,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/girls'%20love.

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