maiden🔊

(now chiefly literary) A girl or an unmarried young woman.

A female virgin.

(obsolete, dialectal) A man with no experience of sex, especially because of deliberate abstention.

A maidservant.

A clothes maiden.

(now rare) An unmarried woman, especially an older woman.

(horse racing) A racehorse without any victory, i.e. one having a "virgin record".

(horse racing) A horse race in which all starters are maidens.

(historical) A Scottish counterpart of the guillotine.

(cricket) A maiden over.

(obsolete) A machine for washing linen.

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

Virgin.

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

Like or befitting a (young, unmarried) maiden.

(figuratively) Being a first occurrence or event.

(cricket) Being an over in which no runs are scored.

Fresh; innocent; unpolluted; pure; hitherto unused.

(of a fortress) Never having been captured or violated.

(of a tree) Grown from seed and never pruned.