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| maid·en [ máyd'n ] |
noun (plural maid·ens) |
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1. young unmarried woman: a young unmarried woman
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archaic or literary
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sometimes offensive
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2. virgin: a woman who has never had sexual intercourse
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archaic or literary
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3. horse yet to win: a horse that has never won a race
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4. guillotine: in 16th- and 17th-century Scotland, a guillotine used to execute criminals
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adjective |
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1. first: done for the very first time
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sometimes offensive
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  a maiden voyage
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2. untouched: still in its original, unused, untouched, or unexplored condition
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literary
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sometimes offensive
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maiden territory
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3. for horses yet to win: for horses that have never won a race
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| [ Old English mægden< Germanic, "young woman"] |
