virgin

IPA: vˈɝdʒɪn

noun

  • person who has not had sexual intercourse, animal that has never mated
  • A person who has never engaged in any sexual activity at all.
  • (Catholicism, Orthodoxy or historical) Someone vowed to virginity (usually a woman and often a consecrated virgin), or someone who died in defense of their virginity; (especially) one venerated as a saint.
  • (informal) One who has never used or experienced a specified thing.
  • Any of several species of gossamer-winged butterflies of the family Lycaenidae.
  • (entomology) A female insect producing eggs from which young are hatched, though there has been no fecundation by a male; a parthenogenetic insect.
  • (Christianity) Synonym of Virgin Mary (“Mary, mother of Jesus”).
  • The constellation and star sign Virgo.
  • (rare) A surname.
  • A tributary of the Colorado River in the states of Utah, Nevada, and Arizona in the United States.
  • A town in Washington County, Utah.
  • (Christianity, art) A representation (picture, statue etc.) of Virgin Mary.

adjective

  • (usually not comparable) In a state of virginity; chaste, not having had sexual intercourse.
  • Of a physical object, untouched.
  • Not yet cultivated, explored, or exploited by humans or humans of certain civilizations.
  • Inexperienced.
  • Of olive oil, obtained by mechanical means, so that the oil is not altered.
  • (usually not comparable) Of mixed drinks, not containing alcohol.
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Examples of "virgin" in Sentences

  • Foods: The term virgin evokes purity, cleanliness, white.
  • The term virgin in its mystical sense signifies a soul pure from admixture of matter.
  • "Among mating animals, the term virgin is applied to the female who has not mated," he answered.
  • The word virgin was said about a thousand times, and every time she heard it, Celeste turned bright red.
  • The film stars Carell as the title virgin, who works at a large electronics store and is basically a loner.
  • The adoption of the term virgin was not a mistranslation: it was a judgment of the translators based on the texts which they had before them and the audience for which the translation was intended.
  • But not only didn't Isaiah, as we have seen, use the word virgin, which all by itself refutes Matthew's virgin birth of Jesus, but the very context in which Isaiah was speaking absolutely precludes the notion of such a prophecy by Isaiah.

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