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maiden

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Noun

  1. A girl or an unmarried young woman.
  2. A female virgin.
  3. A man with no experience of sex, especially because of deliberate abstention.
  4. A maidservant.
  5. A clothes maiden.
  6. An unmarried woman, especially an older woman.
  7. A racehorse without any victory, i.e. one having a "virgin record".
  8. A horse race in which all starters are maidens.
  9. A Scottish counterpart of the guillotine.
  10. A maiden over.
  11. A machine for washing linen.
  12. Alternative form of Maiden.
  13. One of the triune goddesses of the Lady in Wicca alongside the Crone and Mother representing a girl or a young woman

Adjective

  1. Virgin.
  2. Without offspring.
  3. Like or befitting a (young, unmarried) maiden.
  4. Being a first occurrence or event.
  5. Being an over in which no runs are scored.
  6. Fresh; innocent; unpolluted; pure; hitherto unused.
  7. Never having been captured or violated.
  8. Grown from seed and never pruned.

Proper noun

  1. A surname.
  2. Iron Maiden, a heavy metal band from England.

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