maiden
Short definition from Wiktionary
Noun
- A girl or an unmarried young woman.
- A female virgin.
- 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.
- One of the triune goddesses of the Lady in Wicca alongside the Crone and Mother representing a girl or a young woman
Adjective
- Virgin.
- Without offspring.
- Like or befitting a (young, unmarried) maiden.
- Being a first occurrence or event.
- Being an over in which no runs are scored.
- Fresh; innocent; unpolluted; pure; hitherto unused.
- Never having been captured or violated.
- Grown from seed and never pruned.
Proper noun
- A surname.
- Iron Maiden, a heavy metal band from England.
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