maiden

noun maidens

1. literary A girl or an unmarried young woman.
2. archaic A female virgin. She's unmarried and still a maiden.

   Similar: bachelorette

3. dialectal, obsolete A man with no experience of sex, especially because of deliberate abstention. As for that ſaid ſire Bors I wille be ſhryuen with a good wylle / Soo ſyr Bors was confeſſyd / and for al wymmen ſir Bors was a vyrgyne / ſauf for one / that was the doughter of kynge Brangorys / and on her he gat a child that hyghte Elayne / and ſauf for her ſyre Bors was a clene mayden[…]
4. A maidservant.
5. A clothes maiden.
6. archaic An unmarried woman, especially an older woman.
7. A racehorse without any victory, i.e. one having a "virgin record".
8. A horse race in which all starters are maidens.
9. historical A Scottish counterpart of the guillotine. It had been customary during the whole civil war, to decapitate state criminals by the instrument called the maiden; but Montrose was condemned to a more ignominious death , by a gibbet thirty feet high
10. A maiden over.
11. obsolete A machine for washing linen.
12. alternative Alternative form of Maiden

adjective

1. not comparable Virgin. a surprising old maiden lady
2. not comparable, of a female Without offspring.
3. not comparable Like or befitting a (young, unmarried) maiden. Haue you no modeſty, no maiden ſhame, / No touch of baſhfulneſſe?
4. figuratively, not comparable Being a first occurrence or event. 1975 was the year when West Indies won their maiden World Cup title.
5. not comparable 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. Come Brother Iohn, full brauely haſt thou fleſht thy Maiden ſword.
7. not comparable, of a fortress Never having been captured or violated. Victorie forsook him for ever since he ransacked the maiden town of Magdenburg
8. not comparable, of a tree Grown from seed and never pruned.

Similar: maidenly

noun Maidens · Mayden

1. One of the triune goddesses of the Lady in Wicca alongside the Crone and Mother representing a girl or a young woman […] different stages of life as represented by our Lady as Maiden, Mother, and Crone, as well as our Lord as Master, Father, and Sage.

Opposite: Master

proper noun the Maiden · Mayden

1. The constellation and zodiacal sign Virgo. "'Tis the simplest thing in the world, sir," said Sheridan. "Virgo, the Maiden, follows Leo, the Lion, in society, as well as in the Zodiac."

proper noun Mayden

1. A surname.
2. Iron Maiden, a heavy metal band from England.