Maidenhead definition

mādn-hĕd
(archaic) The condition or quality of being a maiden; virginity.
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(archaic) Maidenhood; virginity.
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(archaic) The condition or quality of being a maiden; virginity.
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Other Word Forms

Noun

Singular:
maidenhead
Plural:
maidenheads

Origin of maidenhead

  • Middle English maidenhed maiden maid maiden -hed -hood

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Maidenhead Sentence Examples

  • They have also been found in Pleistocene gravels in several parts of England, as Maidenhead, Bromley, Freshfield near Bath, Barnwood near Gloucester, and in the brick-earth of the Thames valley at Crayford, Kent; while their remains also occur in Arctic America.

  • After passing Reading it bends northward to Henley (65), eastward past Great Marlow (57) to Bourne End (54), and southward to Taplow and Maidenhead (494), receiving the Loddon on the right near Shiplake above Henley.

  • Salmon are known to have existed at Maidenhead so recently as 1812, but they disappeared soon after that date.

  • The principal associations are those at Oxford, Reading, Henley, Maidenhead and Windsor, and the Thames Angling Preservation Society, whose district is from Staines to Brentford.

  • The history of Maidenhead (Maydenhutt, Maydenhith) is bound up with that of the ancient bridge.

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