Word Meanings - MAIDEN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

fr. mago son, servant; akin to G. magd, mädchen, maid, OHG. magad, Icel. mögr son, Goth. magus boy, child, magaps virgin, and perh. to 1. An unmarried woman; a girl or woman who has not experienced sexual intercourse; a virgin; a maid.

Additional info about word: MAIDEN

fr. mago son, servant; akin to G. magd, mädchen, maid, OHG. magad, Icel. mögr son, Goth. magus boy, child, magaps virgin, and perh. to 1. An unmarried woman; a girl or woman who has not experienced sexual intercourse; a virgin; a maid. She employed the residue of her life to repairing of highways, building of bridges, and endowing of maidens. Carew. A maiden of our century, yet most meek. Tennyson. 2. A female servant. 3. An instrument resembling the guillotine, formerly used in Scotland for beheading criminals. Wharton. 4. A machine for washing linen.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of MAIDEN)

• maid
• Maiden
• girl
• damsel
• lass
• virgin
• Virgin
• Maid
• maiden

Related words: (words related to MAIDEN)

• VIRGINIA
  One of the States of the United States of America. -- a.
• MAIDENLINESS
  The quality of being maidenly; the behavior that becomes a maid; modesty; gentleness.
• VIRGINAL
  Of or pertaining to a virgin; becoming a virgin; maidenly. "Chastity and honor virginal." Spenser. Virginal generation , parthenogenesis. -- Virginal membrane , the hymen.
• MAIDEN
  fr. mago son, servant; akin to G. magd, mädchen, maid, OHG. magad, Icel. mögr son, Goth. magus boy, child, magaps virgin, and perh. to 1. An unmarried woman; a girl or woman who has not experienced sexual intercourse; a virgin; a maid.
• VIRGINHOOD
  Virginity; maidenhood.
• MAIDENSHIP
  Maidenhood. Fuller.
• DAMSEL
  An attachment to a millstone spindle for shaking the hoppe (more info) damoisele, damisele, gentlewoman, F. demoiselle young lady; cf. OF. damoisel young nobleman, F. damoiseau; fr. LL. domicella, dominicella, fem., domicellus, dominicellus, masc.,
• VIRGIN
  See VIRGO (more info) 1. A woman who has had no carnal knowledge of man; a maid. 2. A person of the male sex who has not known sexual indulgence. Wyclif. These are they which were not defiled with women; for
• MAIDENHOOD
  1. The state of being a maid or a virgin; virginity. Shak. 2. Newness; freshness; uncontaminated state. The maidenhood Of thy fight. Shak.
• MAIDENHAIR
  A fern of the genus Adiantum , having very slender graceful stalks. It is common in the United States, and is sometimes used in medicine. The name is also applied to other species of the same genus, as to the Venus-hair. Maiden grass, the smaller
• VIRGINITY
  1. The quality or state of being a virgin; undefiled purity or chastity; maidenhood. 2. The unmarried life; celibacy. Chaucer.
• MAIDENLIKE
  Like a maiden; modest; coy.
• MAIDENLY
  Like a maid; suiting a maid; maiden-like; gentle, modest, reserved. Must you be blushing . . . What a maidenly man-at-arms are you become ! Shak.
• MAIDENHEAD
  1. The state of being a maiden; maidenhood; virginity. Shak. 2. The state of being unused or uncontaminated; freshness; purity. The maidenhead of their credit. Sir H. Wotton. 3. The hymen, or virginal membrane.
• HANDMAID; HANDMAIDEN
  A maid that waits at hand; a female servant or attendant.
• INDEVIRGINATE
  Not devirginate. Chapman.
• UNMAIDEN
  To ravish; to deflower.
• DEVIRGINATE
  Deprived of virginity.
• DEVIRGINATION
  A deflouring. Feltham.