Definitions for maiden
ˈmeɪd nmaid·en

Princeton's WordNet(2.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. maid, maidennoun

   an unmarried girl (especially a virgin)

2. maiden over, maidenadjective

   (cricket) an over in which no runs are scored

3. inaugural, initiative, initiatory, first, maidenadjective

   serving to set in motion

   "the magazine's inaugural issue"; "the initiative phase in the negotiations"; "an initiatory step toward a treaty"; "his first (or maiden) speech in Congress"; "the liner's maiden voyage"

Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. maidennoun

   A girl or an unmarried young woman.

2. maidennoun

   A female virgin.

   She's unmarried and still a maiden.

3. maidennoun

   A man with no experience of sex, especially because of deliberate abstention.

4. maidennoun

   A maidservant.

5. maidennoun

   An unmarried woman, especially an older woman.

6. maidennoun

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

7. maidennoun

   A Scottish counterpart of the guillotine.

8. maidennoun

   A maiden over.

9. maidenadjective

   virgin

10. maidenadjective

    (about a female, human or animal) without offspring

11. maidenadjective

    like/ fitting a (young, unmarried) maiden

12. maidenadjective

    describing a first occurrence or event

    The Titanic sank on its maiden voyage.

13. maidenadjective

    describing an over in which no runs are scored

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Maidenadjective

   1. Consisting of virgins.

   Nor was there one of all the nymphs that rov’d
   O’er Mænalus, amid the maiden throng
   More favour’d once. Joseph Addison, Ovid’s Metamorph.

   2. Fresh; new; unused; unpolluted.

   He fleshed his maiden sword. William Shakespeare.

   When I am dead, strew me o’er
   With maiden flowers, that all the world may know
   I was a chaste wife to my grave. William Shakespeare, Henry VIII.

   By this maiden blossom in my hand
   I scorn thee and thy fashion. William Shakespeare, Henry VI.

2. MAID, MAIDENnoun

   Etymology: mæden, mægden , Saxon, maegd, Dutch.

   1. An unmarried woman; a virgin.

   Your wives, your daughters,
   Your matrons, and your maids, could not fill up
   The cistern of my lust. William Shakespeare, Macbeth.

   This is a man old, wrinkl’d, faded, wither’d,
   And not a maiden, as thou say’st he is. William Shakespeare.

   I am not solely led
   By nice direction of a maiden ’s eyes. William Shakespeare.

   She employed the residue of her life to repairing of highways, building of bridges, and endowing of maidens. Carew.

   Your deluded wife had been a maid;
   Down on the bridal bed a maid she lay,
   A maid she rose at the approaching day. John Dryden, Juv.

   Let me die, she said,
   Rather than lose the spotless name of maid. Dryden.

   2. A woman servant.

   My maid Nerissa and myself, mean time,
   Will live as maids and widows. William Shakespeare, Merch. of Venice.

   Old Tancred visited his daughter’s bow’r;
   Her cheek, for such his custom was, he kiss’d,
   Then bless’d her kneeling, and her maids dismiss’d. Dryd.

   Her closet and the gods share all her time,
   Except when, only by some maids attended,
   She seeks some shady solitary grove. Nicholas Rowe.

   A thousand maidens ply the purple loom,
   To weave the bed, and deck the regal room. Matthew Prior.

   3. Female.

   If she bear a maid child. Lev. xii. 5.

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Maidennoun

   an unmarried woman; a girl or woman who has not experienced sexual intercourse; a virgin; a maid

2. Maidennoun

   a female servant

3. Maidennoun

   an instrument resembling the guillotine, formerly used in Scotland for beheading criminals

4. Maidennoun

   a machine for washing linen

5. Maidenadjective

   of or pertaining to a maiden, or to maidens; suitable to, or characteristic of, a virgin; as, maiden innocence

6. Maidenadjective

   never having been married; not having had sexual intercourse; virgin; -- said usually of the woman, but sometimes of the man; as, a maiden aunt

7. Maidenadjective

   fresh; innocent; unpolluted; pure; hitherto unused

8. Maidenadjective

   used of a fortress, signifying that it has never been captured, or violated

9. Maidenverb

   to act coyly like a maiden; -- with it as an indefinite object

10. Etymology: [OE. maiden, meiden, AS. maegden, dim. of AS. maeg, fr. mago son, servant; akin to G. magd, mdchen, maid, OHG. magad, Icel. mgr son, Goth. magus boy, child, magaps virgin, and perh. to Zend. magu youth. Cf. Maid a virgin.]

Freebase(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Maiden

   Maiden is a town in Catawba and Lincoln counties in the U.S. state of North Carolina. Maiden is known as "The Biggest Little Football Town in the World". The population was 3,327 at the 2010 census. Maiden is also known for being home to Apple's "Cloud" Data Center, covering 500,000 square feet, that stores information that can be sent/received through iCloud. In May 2012, Apple announced it would generate 60 percent of the Maiden facility’s power itself, through a large deployment of fuel cells at the site and a 100-acre solar farm, with an additional 150-acre site, two miles away. The Catawba County portion of Maiden is part of the Hickory–Lenoir–Morganton Metropolitan Statistical Area, while the Lincoln County portion is part of the Lincolnton Micropolitan Statistical Area.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Maiden

   mād′n, n. a maid: in Scotland, a machine like the guillotine, formerly used for beheading criminals.—adj. pertaining to a virgin or young woman: consisting of maidens: (fig.) unpolluted: fresh: new: unused: first: that has never been captured, said of a fortress.—ns. Maid′enhair, a name given to a fern from the fine hair-like stalks of its fronds; Maid′enhood, Maid′enhead, the state of being a maid: virginity: purity: freshness; Maid′enliness.—adjs. Maid′enly, maiden-like: becoming a maiden: gentle: modest; Maid′en-meek (Tenn.), meek as a maiden; Maid′en-tongued, gentle in voice like a girl; Maid′en-wid′owed, widowed while still a virgin.—n. Maid′hood (Shak.).—Maiden assize, an assize at which there are no criminal cases; Maiden battle, a first contest; Maiden fortress, a fortress that has never been captured; Maiden name, the family name of a married woman before her marriage; Maiden over, in cricket, an over in which no runs are made; Maiden speech, the first public speech made by a person, esp. in Parliament; Maiden stakes, in horse-racing, the money contended for in a race between horses that have never run before.

Dictionary of Nautical Terms(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. maiden

   A fortress which has never been taken.

Military Dictionary and Gazetteer(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. maiden

   An instrument resembling the guillotine, formerly used in Scotland for beheading criminals. Also, a fortress which has never been taken.

Etymology and Origins(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Maiden

   An ancient instrument of capital punishment made in the form of a woman, the front of which opened like a door, and, the victim being imprisoned, sharp steel spikes pierced his body on every side. This name was also given to an early species of guillotine in Scotland. To be executed by its means was to “Kiss the Maiden,” because she clasped him in a death embrace.

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Anagrams for maiden »

1. aidmen

2. Damien

3. demain

4. Manide

5. median

6. Median

7. medina

8. Medina

9. meidan

10. daimen

11. damine

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of maiden in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of maiden in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of maiden in a Sentence

1. Tracy Edwards:

   Maiden was either met with antipathy or aggression -- not really much in between, as we got more successful it got worse -- they did not like that at all.

2. Paula Poundstone:

   I don't have a bank account, because I don't know my mother's maiden name.

3. Dominic Thiem:

   I'm happy I can compete with these guys on the best level, i really hope also that I win my maiden slam when they're still around because it just counts more, yeah.

4. George R.R. Martin:

   ...How would you like to die, Tyrion son of Tywin?” “In my own bed, with a belly full of wine and a maiden's mouth around my cock, at the age of eighty,” he replied.

5. Jack White:

   No matter how much I tried to make a sequence out of the songs, it just seemed like you were taking a Miles Davis record and putting it in the middle of an Iron Maiden record, it had an' Oh, that's interestingly jarring thing' to it, but it wasn't breathing or flowing.

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