Abstract
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.