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Maiden

//ˈmeɪdən// adj, name, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Virgin. not-comparable

    "a surprising old maiden lady"

  2. 2
    Without offspring. not-comparable
  3. 3
    Like or befitting a (young, unmarried) maiden. not-comparable

    "Haue you no modeſty, no maiden ſhame, / No touch of baſhfulneſſe?"

  4. 4
    Being a first occurrence or event. figuratively, not-comparable

    "1975 was the year when West Indies won their maiden World Cup title."

  5. 5
    Being an over in which no runs are scored. not-comparable

    "He bowled a record twelve maiden overs in his spell of 8-33 in 21 overs."

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  1. 6
    Fresh; innocent; unpolluted; pure; hitherto unused. not-comparable

    "Come Brother Iohn, full brauely haſt thou fleſht thy Maiden ſword."

  2. 7
    Never having been captured or violated. not-comparable

    "Victorie forsook him for ever since he ransacked the maiden town of Magdenburg"

  3. 8
    Grown from seed and never pruned. not-comparable
Adjective
  1. 1
    serving to set in motion wordnet
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    The constellation and zodiacal sign Virgo.

    ""'Tis the simplest thing in the world, sir," said Sheridan. "Virgo, the Maiden, follows Leo, the Lion, in society, as well as in the Zodiac.""

  2. 2
    A surname.
  3. 3
    Iron Maiden, a heavy metal band from England.
Noun
  1. 1
    A girl or an unmarried young woman. literary
  2. 2
    One of the triune goddesses of the Lady in Wicca alongside the Crone and Mother representing a girl or a young woman

    "[…] different stages of life as represented by our Lady as Maiden, Mother, and Crone, as well as our Lord as Master, Father, and Sage."

  3. 3
    an unmarried girl (especially a virgin) wordnet
  4. 4
    A female virgin. archaic

    "She's unmarried and still a maiden."

  5. 5
    (cricket) an over in which no runs are scored wordnet
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  1. 6
    A man with no experience of sex, especially because of deliberate abstention. dialectal, obsolete

    "As for that ſaid ſire Bors I wille be ſhryuen with a good wylle / Soo ſyr Bors was confeſſyd / and for al wymmen ſir Bors was a vyrgyne / ſauf for one / that was the doughter of kynge Brangorys / and on her he gat a child that hyghte Elayne / and ſauf for her ſyre Bors was a clene mayden[…]"

  2. 7
    A maidservant.
  3. 8
    A clothes maiden.
  4. 9
    An unmarried woman, especially an older woman. archaic
  5. 10
    A racehorse without any victory, i.e. one having a "virgin record".
  6. 11
    A horse race in which all starters are maidens.
  7. 12
    A Scottish counterpart of the guillotine. historical

    "It had been customary during the whole civil war, to decapitate state criminals by the instrument called the maiden; but Montrose was condemned to a more ignominious death , by a gibbet thirty feet high"

  8. 13
    A maiden over.
  9. 14
    A machine for washing linen. obsolete
  10. 15
    Alternative form of Maiden. alt-of, alternative

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English mayden, meiden, from Old English mæġden (“girl”), originally a diminutive of mæġeþ (“girl”) via diminutive suffix -en, from Proto-West Germanic *magaþ, from Proto-Germanic *magaþs. Equivalent to maid + -en.

Etymology 2

From Middle English mayden, meiden, from Old English mæġden (“girl”), originally a diminutive of mæġeþ (“girl”) via diminutive suffix -en, from Proto-West Germanic *magaþ, from Proto-Germanic *magaþs. Equivalent to maid + -en.

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