maiden

Meanings

Noun

Adjective

  • Virgin.
  • Without offspring.
  • Like or befitting a (young, unmarried) maiden.
  • Being a first occurrence or event.
  • Being an over in which no runs are scored.
  • Fresh; innocent; unpolluted; pure; hitherto unused.
  • Never having been captured or violated.
  • Grown from seed and never pruned

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Origin

  • From Middle English mayden, meiden, from Old English mæġden, diminutive of mæġþ, mæġeþ via diminutive suffix -en, from Proto-West Germanic *magaþ, from Proto-Germanic *magaþs. Equivalent to maid + -en.

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