maiden
/ˈmeɪdən/
Dictionary
noun
- One of the triune goddesses of the Lady in Wicca alongside the Crone and Mother representing a girl or a young woman
noun
- A girl or an unmarried young woman.
- A female virgin.
"She's unmarried and still a maiden."
- A man with no experience of sex, especially because of deliberate abstention.
- A maidservant.
- A clothes maiden.
- An unmarried woman, especially an older woman.
- A racehorse without any victory, i.e. one having a "virgin record".
- A horse race in which all starters are maidens.
- A Scottish counterpart of the guillotine.
- A maiden over.
- A machine for washing linen.
Synonyms:bachelorette
adjective
- Virgin.
- (of a female, human or animal) Without offspring.
- Like or befitting a (young, unmarried) maiden.
- Being a first occurrence or event.
"After Edmund Burke's maiden speech, William Pitt the Elder said Burke had "spoken in such a manner as to stop the mouths of all Europe" and that the Commons should congratulate itself on acquiring such a member."
- Being an over in which no runs are scored.
- Fresh; innocent; unpolluted; pure; hitherto unused.
- (of a fortress) Never having been captured or violated.
- (of a tree) Grown from seed and never pruned
Synonyms:maidenly
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