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Definition maiden
Etymology
From Middle English maiden, meiden, from Old English mæ?den (“maiden, virgin, girl, maid, servant”), diminutive of mæ?þ, mæ?eþ (“maiden, virgin, girl, woman, wife”) via diminutive suffix -en, from Proto-Germanic *magaþs (“maid, virgin”), from Proto-Indo-European *maghu- (“fellow, bachelor”), equivalent to maid + -en. Cognate with Dutch maagd (“virgin”), Old High German magad (“maiden”), modern German (Mädchen or Mädel (“young girl, lass, lassie”), Magd (“maidservant”)), Old Irish mug (“slave”), and Albanian mag (“a hare's young, hinnulus”).
Noun
maiden (plural maidens)
- (now chiefly literary) A girl or an unmarried young woman.
- A female virgin.
- (obsolete, dialectal) A man with no experience of sex, especially because of deliberate abstention.
- A maidservant.
- A clothes maiden.
- (now rare) An unmarried woman, especially an older woman.
- (horse racing) A racehorse without any victory, i.e. one having a "virgin record".
- (horse racing) A horse race in which all starters are maidens.
- (historical) A Scottish counterpart of the guillotine.
- (cricket) A maiden over.
- (obsolete) A machine for washing linen.
- (Wicca) Alternative form of Maiden
Adjective
maiden (not comparable)
- Virgin.
- (of a female, human or animal) Without offspring.
- Like or befitting a (young, unmarried) maiden.
- (figuratively) Being a first occurrence or event.
- (cricket) 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
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