virgins
- 1Plural of virgin.
The survey found that many first-year college students were still virgins.
The chapel windows show the virgins and martyrs honored by the early church.
Note
The plural reaches well beyond sexual inexperience. In church history virgins are people, usually women, vowed to virginity and often venerated as saints; in casual speech a noun in front narrows it to inexperience with one thing, as in camping virgins. It also names certain gossamer-winged butterflies and insects that lay fertile eggs without mating. The possessive is written virgins'.
virgins is a form of virgin
virgin, noun: A person who has never had sexual intercourse, or sometimes never taken part in any sexual activity at all; less often, an animal that has not yet mated. Full entry
- Forms
- virginvirgins plural
- Spelling
- virgin → virgins: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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