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Maiden

Maiden Meaning & Definition
Maiden Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Maiden?

[n] an unmarried girl (especially a virgin)
[n] (cricket) an over in which no runs are scored
[adj] serving to set in motion; "the magazine's inaugural issue"; "the initiative phase in the negotiations"; "an initiatory step toward a treaty"; "his first (or maiden) speech in Congress"; "the liner's maiden voyage"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Maiden: first | inaugural | initiative | initiatory | maid | maiden over | opening

Related Terms | Find terms related to Maiden: ax | babe | baby | bachelor girl | bachelorlike | beardless | block | boyish | boylike | broad | calflike | callow | chaste | chick | chief | childish | childlike | colleen | coltish | cross | cutie | dame | damoiselle | damsel | death chair | death chamber | demoiselle | dewy | doll | drop | earliest | electric chair | evergreen | ever-new | feme sole | filly | first | firsthand | fledgling | foremost | frail | fresh | front | gal | gallows | gallows-tree | gas chamber | gibbet | girl | girlie | girlish | girllike | green | guillotine | halter | head | heifer | hemp | hempen collar | hot seat | hoyden | husbandless | immature | inaugural | initial | intact | jeune fille | jill | junior miss | kiddish | lass | lassie | leading | lethal chamber | little missy | lone woman | mademoiselle | maid | maiden lady | maidenly | main | miss | missy | neoteric | nestling | new | noose | nymphet | old maid | old-maidish | original | piece | pioneer | premier | primary | prime | principal | pristine | puerile | puplike | puppyish | puppylike | quail | raw | romp | rope | scaffold | schoolgirl | schoolmaid | schoolmiss | sempervirent | shakedown | single | single girl | skirt | slip | sole | spinster | spinsterish | spinsterlike | spinsterly | spinstress | spouseless | stake | subdeb | subdebutante | subteen | subteener | teenybopper | the chair | tomato | tomboy | tree | unbeaten | undefiled | undeveloped | unfledged | unhandled | unmarried | untouched | untried | untrodden | unused | unwed | unwedded | vernal | vestal | vestal virgin | virgin | virginal | wench | young | young creature | young thing

See Also | damoiselle | damosel | damozel | damsel | demoiselle | fille | girl | Io | miss | missy | over | young lady | young woman

Maiden In Webster's Dictionary

\Maid"en\, n. [OE. maiden, meiden, AS. m[ae]gden, dim. of AS. m[ae]g?, fr. mago son, servant; akin to G. magd, m["a]dchen, maid, OHG. magad, Icel. m["o]gr son, Goth. magus boy, child, magaps virgin, and perh. to Zend. magu youth. Cf. {Maid} a virgin.] 1. An unmarried woman; a girl or woman who has not experienced sexual intercourse; a virgin; a maid. She employed the residue of her life to repairing of highways, building of bridges, and endowing of maidens. --Carew. A maiden of our century, yet most meek. --Tennyson. 2. A female servant. [Obs.] 3. An instrument resembling the guillotine, formerly used in Scotland for beheading criminals. --Wharton. 4. A machine for washing linen.
\Maid"en\, a. 1. Of or pertaining to a maiden, or to maidens; suitable to, or characteristic of, a virgin; as, maiden innocence. ``Amid the maiden throng.'' --Addison. Have you no modesty, no maiden shame ? --Shak. 2. Never having been married; not having had sexual intercourse; virgin; -- said usually of the woman, but sometimes of the man; as, a maiden aunt. ``A surprising old maiden lady.'' --Thackeray. 3. Fresh; innocent; unpolluted; pure; hitherto unused. ``Maiden flowers.'' --Shak. Full bravely hast thou fleshed Thy maiden sword. --Shak. 4. Used of a fortress, signifying that it has never been captured, or violated. -- T. Warton. Macaulay. {Maiden assize} (Eng. Law), an assize which there is no criminal prosecution; an assize which is unpolluted with blood. It was usual, at such an assize, for the sheriff to present the judge with a pair of white gloves. --Smart. {Maiden name}, the surname of a woman before her marriage. {Maiden pink}. (Bot.) See under {Pink}. {Maiden plum} (Bot.), a West Indian tree ({Comocladia integrifolia}) with purplish drupes. The sap of the tree is glutinous, and gives a persistent black stain. {Maiden speech}, the first speech made by a person, esp. by a new member in a public body. {Maiden tower}, the tower most capable of resisting an enemy.
\Maid"en\, v. t. To act coyly like a maiden; -- with it as an indefinite object. For had I maiden'd it, as many use. Loath for to grant, but loather to refuse. --Bp. Hall.

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