MAIDEN


Meaning of MAIDEN in English

noun a female servant.

2. maiden ·noun a machine for washing linen.

3. maiden ·adj fresh; innocent; unpolluted; pure; hitherto unused.

4. maiden ·vt to act coyly like a maiden;

— with it as an indefinite object.

5. maiden ·adj used of a fortress, signifying that it has never been captured, or violated.

6. maiden ·noun an instrument resembling the guillotine, formerly used in scotland for beheading criminals.

7. maiden ·noun an unmarried woman; a girl or woman who has not experienced sexual intercourse; a virgin; a maid.

8. maiden ·adj of or pertaining to a maiden, or to maidens; suitable to, or characteristic of, a virgin; as, maiden innocence.

9. maiden ·adj never having been married; not having had sexual intercourse; virgin;

— said usually of the woman, but sometimes of the man; as, a maiden aunt.

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