Some English words can be used to mean a ton of different things. For example, the word run is considered to have the most senses of any English word—over 600!
You can use this word to refer to a bunch of different things such as:
PD: Some other English words with tons of different senses include the words set and go.
In the prologue to the Canterbury Tales in the late 1300s, Geoffrey Chaucer speaks of the "young girls of the diocese," not merely young women.
Back in the Middle English period, when the word "girl" first arose in the language, it was used to signify "child," regardless of the gender of the kid in issue.
That didn't alter until the early 15th century, when the word "boy," which was assumed to have been acquired from French roughly a century earlier as another name for a slave or a man of low birth, came to be used more broadly for any young male. As boy encroached on its meaning, girl was compelled to modify or face extinction.
