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WIKTIONARY
maiden
Noun
  • A girl or an unmarried young woman. now chiefly literary
  • A female virgin.
  • A man with no experience of sex, especially because of deliberate abstention. obsolete, dialectal
  • A maidservant.
  • An unmarried woman, especially an older woman. now rare
  • A racehorse without any victory ('virgin record'). horse racing
  • A Scottish counterpart of the guillotine. historical
  • A maiden over. cricket
  • A machine for washing linen. obsolete
  • Alternative form of Maiden Wicca
Adjective
  • Virgin.
  • Without offspring. of a female, human or animal
  • Like or befitting a (young, unmarried) maiden.
  • Being a first occurrence or event. figuratively
  • Being an over in which no runs are scored. cricket
  • Fresh; innocent; unpolluted; pure; hitherto unused.
  • Never having been captured or violated. of a fortress
  • Grown from seed and never pruned of a tree
Maiden
Noun
  • One of the triune goddesses of the Lady in Wicca alongside the Crone and Mother representing a girl or a young woman Wicca