maiden

Meanings

Plural: maidens

Noun

• an unmarried girl (especially a virgin)
• (cricket) an over in which no runs are scored
• A girl or an unmarried young woman.
• A female virgin.
• A man with no experience of sex, especially because of deliberate abstention.
• A maidservant.
• A clothes maiden.
• An unmarried woman, especially an older woman.
• A racehorse without any victory, i.e. one having a "virgin record".
• A horse race in which all starters are maidens.
• A Scottish counterpart of the guillotine.
• A maiden over.
• A machine for washing linen.
• Alternative form of Maiden.

Adjective Satellite

• serving to set in motion
  • "his first (or maiden) speech in Congress"
  • "the liner's maiden voyage"

Adj

• Virgin.
• Without offspring.
• Like or befitting a (young, unmarried) maiden.
• Being a first occurrence or event.
• Being an over in which no runs are scored.
• Fresh; innocent; unpolluted; pure; hitherto unused.
• Never having been captured or violated.
• Grown from seed and never pruned.

Synonyms

bachelorette, first, inaugural, initiative, initiatory, maid, maiden over, maidenly

Related Words

maid

Anagrams of maiden