maiden
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Is maiden a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (now chiefly literary) A girl or an unmarried young woman.literary
2. (archaic) A female virgin.Examples: "She's unmarried and still a maiden."Synonyms: bachelorettearchaic
3. (obsolete, dialectal) A man with no experience of sex, especially because of deliberate abstention.Examples: "As for that ſaid ſire Bors I wille be ſhryuen with a good wylle / Soo ſyr Bors was confeſſyd / and for al wymmen ſir Bors was a vyrgyne / ſauf for one / that was the doughter of kynge Brangorys / and on her he gat a child that hyghte Elayne / and ſauf for her ſyre Bors was a clene mayden[…]"dialectalobsolete
4. (now rare) An unmarried woman, especially an older woman.archaic
5. (horse racing) A racehorse without any victory, i.e. one having a "virgin record".
6. (horse racing) A horse race in which all starters are maidens.
adj (English)
1. (of a female, human or animal) Without offspring.not-comparable
2. (figuratively) Being a first occurrence or event.Examples: "1975 was the year when West Indies won their maiden World Cup title."; "The Titanic sank on its maiden voyage."; "After Edmund Burke's maiden speech, William Pitt the Elder said Burke had "spoken in such a manner as to stop the mouths of all Europe" and that the Commons should congratulate itself on acquiring such a member."figurativelynot-comparable
3. (cricket) Being an over in which no runs are scored.Examples: "He bowled a record twelve maiden overs in his spell of 8-33 in 21 overs."not-comparable
4. (of a fortress) Never having been captured or violated.Examples: "Victorie forsook him for ever since he ransacked the maiden town of Magdenburg"; "But every citizen considered his own honor as bound up with the honor of the maiden fortress."not-comparable
5. (of a tree) Grown from seed and never pruned.not-comparable
noun (English)
1. (Wicca) One of the triune goddesses of the Lady in Wicca alongside the Crone and Mother representing a girl or a young womanExamples: "[…] different stages of life as represented by our Lady as Maiden, Mother, and Crone, as well as our Lord as Master, Father, and Sage."; "The Lady is often thought of as having three aspects: Maiden, Mother, and Crone."
Definition source: Wiktionary