maiden

noun · adjectiveA2

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Danh từ

noun

Plural noun:

maidens

1.
(literary)(now chiefly literary) A girl or an unmarried young woman.
2.
(archaic)A female virgin.
She's unmarried and still a maiden.
3.
(dialectal, obsolete)A man with no experience of sex, especially because of deliberate abstention.
4.
A maidservant.
5.
A clothes maiden.
6.
(archaic)(now rare) An unmarried woman, especially an older woman.
7.
(horse racing) A racehorse without any victory, i.e. one having a "virgin record".
8.
(horse racing) A horse race in which all starters are maidens.
9.
(historical)A Scottish counterpart of the guillotine.
10.
(cricket) A maiden over.
11.
(obsolete)A machine for washing linen.
12.
(alt of, alternative)(Wicca) Alternative form of Maiden.

Tính từ

adjective

1.
(not comparable)Virgin.
2.
(not comparable)(of a female, human or animal) Without offspring.
3.
(not comparable)Like or befitting a (young, unmarried) maiden.
4.
(figuratively, not comparable)Being a first occurrence or event.
1975 was the year when West Indies won their maiden World Cup title.
The Titanic sank on its maiden voyage.
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.
5.
(not comparable)(cricket) Being an over in which no runs are scored.
He bowled a record twelve maiden overs in his spell of 8-33 in 21 overs.
6.
(not comparable)Fresh; innocent; unpolluted; pure; hitherto unused.
7.
(not comparable)(of a fortress) Never having been captured or violated.
8.
(not comparable)(of a tree) Grown from seed and never pruned.

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Đồng nghĩa

bachelorette maidenly

Trái nghĩa

Master

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Nguồn gốc từ

From Middle English mayden, meiden, from Old English mæġden (girl), originally a diminutive of mæġeþ (girl) via diminutive suffix -en, from *magaþ, from Proto-Germanic *magaþs. Equivalent to maid + -en.