What does the phrase "GIRL NEXT DOOR' mean?

Question

I have often heard this in films and on tv, but i really dont get what it means. Who is a girl next door?

Answer 1

It means that she is a metaphorical girl who lived in the next house, next door to a boy. This girl has come to symbolise the perfect woman of adult life. In real life, boys and girls who actually lived next to each other have rarely found perfection in the other! Not perfection, at least in American usage. A "girl next door type" (in the Hollywood sense, and accepted by most Americans) is not glamorous, not exotic, not perfect, not remote, not worldly, not pretentious. She is "beautiful" in the sense of attainable, cheerful , direct, comfortable and sometimes underappreciated by the boy next door, who chases after some glamorous fantasy instead. She is, by generations, Ruby Keeler, not Joan Crawford; Myrna Loy, not Jane Russell; Doris Day, not Marilyn Monroe; Meg Ryan, not Cindy Crawford; Renee Zellweger, not (name any high-fashion model here.) The girl next door may have great cheekbones, but they've got freckles on them.

Answer 2

The "girl next door" implies not only an ordinary sort of girl that wouldn't stand out in a crowd, but also a certain kind of wholesomeness. For example, you wouldn't expect the girl next door (like a neighbor girl that you've known for a long time) to be involved with with something criminal, scandalous or maybe just unexpected. In the English language we might use this phrase as follows:

"Sally seemed like the typical girl next door. Thus we were all shocked to discover that she made her living as an exotic dancer."

We Americans do have a lot of confusing expressions. Hope this helps!

Answer 3

The girl next door is the girl that you know and dont think of her as anything more than that kindof a sister status. She could be a hottie and you wouldnt even notice because you would generally say oh thats just 'julie' shes my neighbor, hence the girl next door. But your buds might come over and say man, why didnt you tell me such a babe lives next door? and you say who?
her. O thats just julie, 'the girl next door'.
hope this helped have a nice day.

Answer 4

When referring to a "girl next door", one is usually referring to a typical girl who doesn't really stand out in the crowd too much.

Answer 5

The girl who lives next door heheh..na it means a typical girl who doesnt really stand out katie holmes when she was in dawsons reek was always refered to the girl next door type lol

Answer 6

Typical girl, like the one that grew up next door to you...the girl you grew up being friends with from a young age, or one like her.