MAIDEN
\mˈe͡ɪdən], \mˈeɪdən], \m_ˈeɪ_d_ə_n]\
Definitions of MAIDEN
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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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"
By Princeton University
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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"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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An instrument resembling the guillotine, formerly used in Scotland for beheading criminals.
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A machine for washing linen.
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Of or pertaining to a maiden, or to maidens; suitable to, or characteristic of, a virgin; as, maiden innocence.
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Fresh; innocent; unpolluted; pure; hitherto unused.
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Used of a fortress, signifying that it has never been captured, or violated.
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To act coyly like a maiden; - with it as an indefinite object.
By Oddity Software
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An instrument resembling the guillotine, formerly used in Scotland for beheading criminals.
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A machine for washing linen.
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Of or pertaining to a maiden, or to maidens; suitable to, or characteristic of, a virgin; as, maiden innocence.
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Fresh; innocent; unpolluted; pure; hitherto unused.
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Used of a fortress, signifying that it has never been captured, or violated.
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To act coyly like a maiden; - with it as an indefinite object.
By Noah Webster.
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An unmarried girl or woman; a virgin.
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Pertaining to, or like, a virgin; pure; innocent; unsoiled; unused; untried; as, a maiden knight; earliest or first; as, a maiden trip.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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A maid; in Scotland, a machine like the guillotine, formerly used for a like purpose.
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Pertaining to a virgin or young woman: consisting of maidens: (fig.) unpolluted: fresh: new: unused: first.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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