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Lassie meaning

A young girl, a lass, especially one seen as a sweetheart.

Synonyms of Lassie

lass young girl jeune fille girl miss missy young lady young woman fille

Related words

Other words often associated with Lassie or its synonyms:

woman neglect boy failure fail daughter misfire female lose title

Using Lassie

  • The main meaning on this page is: A young girl, a lass, especially one seen as a sweetheart.
  • Useful related words include: lass, young girl, jeune fille, girl.
  • In the example corpus, lassie often appears in combinations such as: bonnie lassie, this lassie, lassie is.

Context around Lassie

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 20.6 words
  • Position in the sentence: 2 start, 9 middle, 4 end
  • Sentence types: 14 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations

Often before:

bonnie 2× declaration 1× mother 1× collie 1× 1943 1× casper 1× replaced 1× wee 1×

Often after:

listening 1× dog 1× isn 1× started 1× flopped 1×

Sentence patterns with Lassie

These short patterns come directly from the example sentences and show how the word is often embedded:

bonnie bonnie lassie 1× but lassie isn t 1× constant declaration lassie dog the 1× film collie lassie to save 1× it with lassie 1× known as lassie is very 1× lassie s owner 1× like casper lassie and voltron 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

all three movies 1× although my family 1× but lassie isn 1× dreamworks acquired the 1× for example assuming 1× great ending though 1×

Common sentence endings:

bonnie bonnie lassie 1× in his opinions 1× in the movies 1× injured postwoman 500 1× it with lassie 1× lassie started barking 1×

Words around Lassie

Just before it in the word index:

lassi 15 lasseter 22 lasses 6 lassen 62 lassell 3 lasse 8

Just after it in the word index:

lassies 7 lassig 3 lassiter 19 lassitude 4 lassner 8 lasso 109

Similar in corpus frequency:

aaaa 20 abductees 20 abdulahi 20 abetment 20 abhors 20 ablution 20

Corpus analysis for Lassie

  • In this selection, "lassie" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 20.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, bonnie, declaration, mother, listening, dog and isn stand out and add context to how "lassie" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include bonnie bonnie lassie and but lassie isn t. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "lassie" sits close to words such as aaaa, abductees and abdulahi, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with lassie

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Short example sentences

We all loved this lassie, a bonnie bonnie lassie. (9 words)

Not good for the Little lady though - 'Wee Lassie'? (9 words)

Then Timmy fell down the well and Lassie started barking. (10 words)

Longer example sentences

Then you end up in some kind of favela and you’re kind of with this lassie and then her boyfriend or something comes in and then you’re doing a runner on the back of somebody’s motorbike. (39 words)

The family moved to America when she was 3 ½ months old where Janet grew up as her father’s “bonnie lassie” listening to him sing to her, “I love a Lassie”. (32 words)

For example, assuming a function declaration mother: animal → animal, and a constant declaration lassie: dog, the term mother(lassie) is perfectly valid and has the sort animal. (27 words)

Question examples

Not good for the Little lady though - 'Wee Lassie'? (9 words)

Example sentences (15)

The family moved to America when she was 3 ½ months old where Janet grew up as her father’s “bonnie lassie” listening to him sing to her, “I love a Lassie”.

We all loved this lassie, a bonnie bonnie lassie.

For example, assuming a function declaration mother: animal → animal, and a constant declaration lassie: dog, the term mother(lassie) is perfectly valid and has the sort animal.

Then you end up in some kind of favela and you’re kind of with this lassie and then her boyfriend or something comes in and then you’re doing a runner on the back of somebody’s motorbike.

Lassie's owner Rebecca Phillipson has now been banned from keeping dogs and must pay the injured postwoman £500.

Loyal whippet Blue copied the brave antics of TV and film collie Lassie to save seriously-injured owner Brandon Garrett.

But Lassie isn’t easily separated from Flo and embarks on an adventurous journey across Germany to be reunited with Flo.

The man who would become known as Lassie is very rigid at first, set in his ways and traditional in his opinions.

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Then Timmy fell down the well and Lassie started barking.

Although my family recently watched the 1943 “Lassie, Come Home” on TV, we haven’t seen the “in theaters now!” movie “A Dog’s Way Home” yet.

DreamWorks acquired the rights to She-Ra in 2012, along with more than 450 other Classic Media properties, like Casper, Lassie and Voltron: Defender of the Universe.

Great ending though, still trying to figure out how Hooch made it with Lassie.

Kacy would have never replaced Lassie or Rin Tin Tin as a leading dog in the movies.

Not good for the Little lady though - 'Wee Lassie'?

All three movies received poor reviews, and The Magic of Lassie flopped at the box office.

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Common combinations with lassie

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "lassie" in a sentence?
An example: "The family moved to America when she was 3 ½ months old where Janet grew up as her father’s “bonnie lassie” listening to him sing to her, “I love a Lassie”." This page contains 10+ example sentences with the word "lassie" from authentic English texts.
What does "lassie" mean?
Lassie means: A young girl, a lass, especially one seen as a sweetheart.
What are synonyms of "lassie"?
Common synonyms of "lassie" include: lass, young girl, jeune fille, girl, miss, missy, young lady, young woman. Plus 1 more synonyms.
How many example sentences with "lassie" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains at least 10+ example sentences with "lassie", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.