Maiden Definition
mādn
maidens
noun
maidens
A girl or young unmarried woman.
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A virgin.
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A race horse that has never won a race.
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A device like the guillotine, formerly used in Scotland for beheading criminals.
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An over in which no runs are scored.
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adjective
Of, characteristic of, or suitable for a maiden.
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Unmarried.
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Wiktionary
Inexperienced; untried; unused; new; fresh.
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Never having won a race.
A maiden horse.
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Other Word Forms of Maiden
Noun
Singular:
maidenPlural:
maidensOrigin of Maiden
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From Middle English, from Old English mæġden (“maiden, virgin, girl, maid, servant"), diminutive of mæġþ, mæġeþ (“maiden, virgin, girl, woman, wife") via diminutive suffix -en, from Proto-Germanic *magaþs (“maid, virgin"), from Proto-Indo-European *maghu- (“fellow, bachelor"), equivalent to maid +"Ž -en. Cognate with Dutch maagd (“virgin"), Old High German magad (“maiden") (modern German Magd (“maidservant"), Old Irish mug (“slave") and Albanian mag (“a hare's young, hinnulus").
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Middle English from Old English mægden maghu- in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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