VIRGIN


Meaning of VIRGIN in English

(~s)

1.

A ~ is someone who has never had sex.

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

N-COUNT

2.

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

Within 40 years there will be no ~ forest left.

ADJ: usu ADJ n

3.

If you say that a situation is ~ 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 ~ 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 ~...

N-COUNT: oft n N

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