maiden
Meaning
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- A girl or an unmarried young woman.
- A female virgin.
- (obsolete) A man with no experience of sex, especially because of deliberate abstention.
- A maidservant.
- A clothes maiden.
- An unmarried woman, especially an older woman.
- A racehorse without any victory, i.e. one having a "virgin record".
- A horse race in which all starters are maidens.
- A Scottish counterpart of the guillotine.
- A maiden over.
- (obsolete) A machine for washing linen.
- Alternative form of Maiden
Synonyms
young girl
young woman
unmarried woman
damoiselle
damozel
damosel
the fair sex
fille
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈmeɪdən/
Etymology
In summary
From Middle English mayden, meiden, from Old English mæġden (“girl”), originally a diminutive of mæġeþ (“girl”) via diminutive suffix -en, from Proto-West Germanic *magaþ, from Proto-Germanic *magaþs. Equivalent to maid + -en.
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