Definition of "colleen" [col•leen]

• An Irish girl. (noun)

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• "The colleen is a high school junior picked for her scholastic and community activities."
• "Presently, out of the crowd of frightened people sprang a "colleen" of about twelve years, as thinly and scantily clad as is consistent with that decency and modesty for which Irishwomen of the poorer classes are so justly celebrated."
• "I was: from any doubts as to which I was speedily relieved by the entrance of the priest's bare-footed "colleen," to deposit on my table a bottle of soda water, and announce breakfast, with his reverence's compliments."