maiden.
A girl or an unmarried young woman.
Meaning & usage
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.
Alternative form of Maiden.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English mayden, meiden, from Old English mæġden (“girl”), originally a diminutive of mæġeþ (“girl”) via diminutive suffix -en, from Proto-West Germanic *magaþ, from Proto-Germanic *magaþs. Equivalent to maid + -en.
Virgin.
Without offspring.
Like or befitting a (young, unmarried) maiden.
Being a first occurrence or event.
1975 was the year when West Indies won their maiden World Cup title.
The Titanic sank on its maiden voyage.
Being an over in which no runs are scored.
He bowled a record twelve maiden overs in his spell of 8-33 in 21 overs.
Fresh; innocent; unpolluted; pure; hitherto unused.
Never having been captured or violated.
Grown from seed and never pruned.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English mayden, meiden, from Old English mæġden (“girl”), originally a diminutive of mæġeþ (“girl”) via diminutive suffix -en, from Proto-West Germanic *magaþ, from Proto-Germanic *magaþs. Equivalent to maid + -en.
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