maiden

IPA: mˈeɪdʌn

(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) One of the triune goddesses of the Lady in Wicca alongside the Crone and Mother representing a girl or a young woman
A surname.
Iron Maiden, a heavy metal band from England.
(Wicca) Alternative form of Maiden [(Wicca) One of the triune goddesses of the Lady in Wicca alongside the Crone and Mother representing a girl or a young woman]

Examples of "maiden" in Sentences

But Kris, an iron maiden is a medieval torture device.
In this maiden is incoiporated all the experience of the race.
The fact that an iron maiden is a medieval torture device is also beside the point.
In parts of India, the harvest maiden is Guari and She is represented by both an unmarried girl and a bunch of balsam plants.
Next door, at Cruz Vega's place of business, the maiden is carved into a very large picture in which she is in an open meadow.
Actually, the fact that an iron maiden is a medieval torture device that pre-dates both rock and roll and comic books does little to invalidate the band's trademark claim.
For two years we had been close; she had been so much my friend, she could not in maiden charity seal for me a so unwelcome fate, I had awakened her slumbering soul with my first look into the sphinx wonder of her eyes.
IT passeth for a general report of what was customary in former times, that the sheriff of the county used to present the judge with a pair of white gloves at those which we call maiden assizes, viz. when no malefactor is put to death therein; a great rarity (though usual in small) in large and populous countries.