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maiden

/ˈmeɪdən/

noun

Meaning

  • One of the triune goddesses of the Lady in Wicca alongside the Crone and Mother representing a girl or a young woman

noun

Meaning

  • 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

Meaning

  • 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