The article is devoted to the analysis of semantic, usual and stylistic correlations of lexems, naming a female before marriage, as words of one root for Russian (дева, девка, девочка, девушка), in their asymmetrical and differentional correlations with not by one-root designations of male before marriage (юноша, парень, молодец, мальчик). For comparison the material from other slavic languages is involved.
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