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Meaning of maiden

Source language: EnglishDictionary language: English

maiden

Pronunciation:/ˈmeɪdən//ˈmeɪdən/

noun

Definitions

  1. One of the triune goddesses of the Lady in Wicca alongside the Crone and Mother representing a girl or a young woman

noun

Definitions

  1. A girl or an unmarried young woman.

  2. A female virgin.

    Example: She's unmarried and still a maiden.

  3. A man with no experience of sex, especially because of deliberate abstention.

  4. A maidservant.

adjective

Definitions

  1. Virgin.

  2. (of a female, human or animal) Without offspring.

  3. Like or befitting a (young, unmarried) maiden.

  4. Being a first occurrence or event.

    Example: After Edmund Burke's maiden speech, William Pitt the Elder said Burke had "spoken in such a manner as to stop the mouths of all Europe" and that the Commons should congratulate itself on acquiring such a member.