Maiden | |
1. subst. (Wicca) One of the triune goddesses of the Lady in Wicca alongside the Crone and Mother representing a girl or a young woman | |
2. subst. (now chiefly literary) A girl or an unmarried young woman. | |
3. subst. A female virgin. | |
She's unmarried and still a maiden. | |
4. subst. (obsolete, dialectal) A man with no experience of sex, especially because of deliberate abstention. | |
5. subst. A maidservant. | |
6. subst. A clothes maiden. | |
7. subst. (now rare) An unmarried woman, especially an older woman. | |
8. subst. (horse racing) A racehorse without any victory, i.e. one having a "virgin record". | |
9. subst. (historical) A Scottish counterpart of the guillotine. | |
10. subst. (cricket) A maiden over. | |
11. subst. (obsolete) A machine for washing linen. | |
12. subst. (Wicca) alternative form of Maiden | |
13. adj. Virgin. | |
14. adj. (of a female, human or animal) Without offspring. | |
15. adj. Like or befitting a (young, unmarried) maiden. | |
16. adj. (figuratively) Being a first occurrence or event. | |
The Titanic sank on its maiden voyage. | |
After Edmund Burke's maiden speech, William Pitt the Elder said Burke had "spoken in such a manner as to stop the mouths of all Europe" and that the Commons should congratulate itself on acquir | |
17. adj. (cricket) Being an over in which no runs are scored. | |
18. adj. Fresh; innocent; unpolluted; pure; hitherto unused. | |
19. adj. (of a fortress) Never having been captured or violated. | |
20. adj. (of a tree) Grown from seed and never pruned | |