I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
extra virgin
virgin birth
virgin forest (= forest that has not been used or changed by people )
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Here virgin forest remains that is at least a thousand years old.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the virgin birth
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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At 27 he was still a virgin and very shy about it.
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Some men will not marry a woman who is no longer a virgin .
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This is the first model computer virgins can operate as soon as it lands on their desks.
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Women in some countries are expected to keep their virginity until marriage - the same rule doesn't apply to men.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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After offering a prayer, the virgin expired.
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Here Melangell founded a community of virgins and lived a further thirty seven years in the valley.
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Sentences for rape are eased if the victim is not a virgin .
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She led me to the double rainbow where virgins climb to heaven and told me to climb.
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She must remain a virgin until marriage and must never take any lovers other than her husband.
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The demeanour of a virgin can be converted into that of a coquette.
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The discovery that Judy was a virgin , and intended to remain so for some time longer, rattled me considerably.
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When Jane Eyre finally married Mr Rochester she was still, after all, a virgin .
II. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
birth
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If we are truthful we may admit that we find the ideas of the virgin birth or the resurrection incredulous.
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In the absence of divine intervention, virgin birth for mammals is not an option.
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It can not be proved that the virgin birth did not happen.
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There is no knowledge of the idea of the virgin birth in the Church before the Gospels were written.
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Again the virgin birth , in view of what we now know of human reproduction, has become highly suspect for people.
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The angel's answer is part of the foundation of the teaching about the virgin birth .
forest
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Some scientists believe that it can take up to a thousand years for virgin forest to be truly established.
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Cloud shadows scudded across immeasurable stands of virgin forests .
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Another road runs south, through the oilfields, and is constantly being extended into virgin forest .
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The trees here were all larger and growing much more vigorously than in the virgin forest above.
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In response to the beard-shaving incident the Dwarfs chopped down entire virgin forests to spite the Elves.
land
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After an initial few hundred feet across virgin land the railway will join the old trackbed of the long-disused Newbury Railway.
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The whole of the transcendent is virgin land whereas the mundane is filled with the debris of a lifetime.
snow
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Within an hour, Bucharest is buried under a blanket of virgin snow .
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In low range, it walks with authority across a field covered by a couple of feet of packed virgin snow .
territory
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As far as Labour is concerned, this is virgin territory .
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Helena some years earlier to map the stars of the southern hemisphere-virtually virgin territory on the landscape of the night.
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Working on what in effect was virgin territory for customs officers our crews produced fantastic results in the earlier days.
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I mean, this was still virgin territory , there were no tube lines running to this part of the frontier.
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Of course, our rummage crews were working on more or less virgin territory , where no customs rummage crew had been before.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a virgin bride
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a virgin piña colada
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He was eager to try out his jokes on a virgin audience.
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Here we find immense virgin forests, similar to those of the Amazon and Indonesia.
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In front of them were 500 miles of virgin plains almost uninhabited by white people.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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General Booth's Salvationist doctrine was a notable example, recommending mass emigration from the city slums to virgin colonial territories.
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It was in virgin wilderness up north where septic tanks are forbidden.
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Like ours, it lies ahead of her like a wilderness just before the first explorer sets foot on the virgin sand.
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No more virgin coastal cliff will be sprinkled with bungalows.