maiden
IPA: mˈeɪdʌn
noun
- (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]
adjective
- 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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Examples of "maiden" in Sentences
- He married the enchanted maiden.
- The tailor and the maiden married.
- The man was seized with love for the maiden.
- It is a beautiful story of a knight and a maiden.
- He is the son of an elf maiden and a human brigand.
- The bats swoop down and attack the squirrel maiden.
- Sala is the sala tree and bhanjika is the chaste maiden.
- Chinese women now have the right to retain their maiden names.
- The Manly maidens shoot the surf, Or bake their bingies on the shingly shore.
- On the opposite face of the first log is the Hine atahua, the beautiful maiden.