Maiden

Noun

 * 1)  A girl or an unmarried young woman.
 * 2) A female virgin.
 * She's unmarried and still a maiden.
 * 1)  A man with no experience of sex, especially because of deliberate abstention.
 * 2) * 1485, Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book XI:
 * And for all women Sir Bors was a vergyne, sauff for one, that was the doughter of Kynge Braundegorys [...], and sauff for her, Sir Bors was a clene mayden.
 * 1) A maidservant.
 * 2)  An unmarried woman, especially an older woman.
 * 3) A race horse without any victory ('virgin record').
 * 4)  A Scottish counterpart of the guillotine.
 * 5)  A maiden over.

Derived terms

 * maidenhair
 * maidenhead
 * maidenhood
 * maidenly, maidenliness
 * maiden flight
 * maiden voyage
 * maiden name
 * maiden of honor
 * iron maiden

Related terms

 * maid

Synonyms

 * (unmarried (young) female) bachelorette

Adjective

 * 1) virgin
 * 2) (about a female, human or animal) without offspring
 * 3) like/ fitting a (young, unmarried) maiden
 * 4)  describing a first occurrence or event
 * The Titanic sank on its maiden voyage.
 * 1)  describing an over in which no runs are scored

Synonyms

 * maidenly

Adjectives for Maiden
modest; guileless; simple; barefoot; dimpled; timid; white-veiled; sainted; home-keeping; cherry-cheeked; rosy-lipped; burlesque; gleeful; toddling; pastoral; dejected; snow; movie-mad; timid; willful; loose-girdled; affectionate; hapless; orbed; pale; avaricious; virtuous; rigid; decked; broad-backed; unfortunate; bright-eyed; enamored.

Thesaurus
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, ever-new, evergreen, 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

Etymology
From, from mægden:, diminutive of mægþ:, mægeþ: via diminutive suffix -en:, from , from , equivalent to. Cognate with maagd:,  magad: (modern German Magd:),  mug:.

Pronunciation




Noun

 * Armenian:
 * Breton: ,
 * Bulgarian:
 * Dutch: juffrouw, maagd (poetic), meisje , jongedame, vrijster
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:, jeune femme, , (informal or dated)
 * German:, ,
 * Hungarian: leány
 * Irish:
 * Italian: pulzella, ragazza
 * Old English:, ,


 * Old Provençal:
 * Polish:
 * Russian: девушка, девица, дева
 * Scottish Gaelic: maighdeann, ainnir , rìbhinn f (poetic), nighean , òigh , gruagach
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Taos: kwə́lena
 * Welsh:, , ,


 * Armenian:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: neitsyt, impi (archaic, poetic)
 * French: ,
 * German:


 * Hungarian: szűz
 * Irish:
 * Polish:
 * Russian: девственница
 * Scottish Gaelic: maighdeann, òigh ,
 * Swedish: ,


 * : djeva
 * : djeva
 * : senioretta
 * : signorina, vergine
 * : senhorita, donzela


 * Cyrillic: дева, дјева
 * Roman: deva, djeva , mladica , moma , mladojka
 * : domnişoară
 * : deva
 * : doncella
 * : llancesig, morwyn , merch , morwynig , rhiain
 * : llancesig, morwyn , merch , morwynig , rhiain

Adjective

 * Dutch:


 * Finnish: neitsyt-
 * French:
 * Portuguese: primeiro, primeira , inaugural


 * Romanian: inaugural, inaugurală
 * Swedish: -


 * : prime, inaugural

Anagrams

 * aidmen
 * Damien
 * demain
 * median, Median
 * medina, Medina
 * meidan

Noun
maiden



Alternative forms

 * maitten

Anagrams

 * median