Definizione monolingua

maiden

maiden (plural maidens)

1. (now chiefly literary) A girl or an unmarried young woman.
2. A female virgin.

   Shes unmarried and still a maiden.

3. (now dialectal) A man with no experience of sex, especially because of deliberate abstention.
   • 1485, Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book XI:

     And for all women Sir Bors was a vergyne, sauff for one, that was the doughter of Kynge Braundegorys [...], and sauff for her, Sir Bors was a clene mayden.

4. A maidservant.
5. (now rare) An unmarried woman, especially an older woman.
6. A race horse without any victory (virgin record).
7. (historical) A Scottish counterpart of the guillotine.
8. (cricket) A maiden over.

maiden (not comparable)

1. virgin
2. (about a female, human or animal) without offspring
3. like/ fitting a (young, unmarried) maiden
4. (figuratively) describing a first occurrence or event

   The Titanic sank on its maiden voyage.

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

Definizione dizionario maiden

vergine

	pulzella
	unmarried young female

	ragazza
	unmarried young female

donzella

fanciulla

inaugurale

nubile

primo

puro

signorina

virgineo

zitella

Altri significati:

(figuratively) describing a first occurrence or event

A race horse without any victory ('virgin record').

(cricket) describing an over in which no runs are scored

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

(cricket) A maiden over.

A maidservant.

(about a female, human or animal) without offspring

virgin

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

A young unmarried woman.

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

like/ fitting a (young, unmarried) maiden

female virgin

A female virgin.

describing a first occurrence or event

(historical) A Scottish counterpart of the guillotine.