VIRGIN


Meaning of VIRGIN in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ vɜ:(r)dʒɪn ]

( virgins)

1.

A virgin is someone who has never had sex.

I was a virgin until I was thirty years old...

N-COUNT

2.

You use virgin to describe something such as land that has never been used or spoiled.

Within 40 years there will be no virgin forest left.

ADJ : usu ADJ n

3.

If you say that a situation is virgin territory , you mean that you have no experience of it and it is completely new for you.

PHRASE : v-link PHR , PHR after v

4.

You can use virgin to describe someone who has never done or used a particular thing before.

Until he appeared in ‘In the Line of Fire’ Malkovich had been an action-movie virgin...

N-COUNT : oft n N

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