maiden

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ˈmeɪdən/    美 /ˈmeɪdən/|/ˈmæɪdən/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A girl or an unmarried young woman. literary
  2. A female virgin. archaic
    — She's unmarried and still a maiden.
  3. A man with no experience of sex, especially because of deliberate abstention. dialectal,obsolete
    — 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[…]
    As for that, said Sir Bors, I will be shriven with a good will. So Sir Bors was confessed, and for all women Sir Bors was a virgin, save for one, that was the daughter of King Brangoris, and with her he begat a child that hight Elaine, and save for her Sir Bors was a clean maiden.
  4. A maidservant.
  5. A clothes maiden.
  6. An unmarried woman, especially an older woman. archaic
  7. A racehorse without any victory, i.e. one having a "virgin record".
  8. A horse race in which all starters are maidens.
  9. A Scottish counterpart of the guillotine. historical
    — It had been customary during the whole civil war, to decapitate state criminals by the instrument called the maiden; but Montrose was condemned to a more ignominious death , by a gibbet thirty feet high
  10. A maiden over.
  11. A machine for washing linen. obsolete
  12. Alternative form of Maiden. alt-of,alternative
形容词 adj.
  1. Virgin. not-comparable
    — a surprising old maiden lady
  2. Without offspring. not-comparable
  3. Like or befitting a (young, unmarried) maiden. not-comparable
    — Haue you no modeſty, no maiden ſhame, / No touch of baſhfulneſſe?
  4. Being a first occurrence or event. figuratively,not-comparable
    — 1975 was the year when West Indies won their maiden World Cup title.
  5. Being an over in which no runs are scored. not-comparable
    — He bowled a record twelve maiden overs in his spell of 8-33 in 21 overs.
  6. Fresh; innocent; unpolluted; pure; hitherto unused. not-comparable
    — Come Brother Iohn, full brauely haſt thou fleſht thy Maiden ſword.
  7. Never having been captured or violated. not-comparable
    — Victorie forsook him for ever since he ransacked the maiden town of Magdenburg
  8. Grown from seed and never pruned. not-comparable

词形变化

maidens plural

词汇关系

近义词
maidenly
衍生词
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相关词
maid

词源

词源 1
From Middle English mayden, meiden, from Old English mæġden (“girl”), originally a diminutive of mæġeþ (“girl”) via diminutive suffix -en, from Proto-West Germanic *magaþ, from Proto-Germanic *magaþs. Equivalent to maid + -en.
词源 2
From Middle English mayden, meiden, from Old English mæġden (“girl”), originally a diminutive of mæġeþ (“girl”) via diminutive suffix -en, from Proto-West Germanic *magaþ, from Proto-Germanic *magaþs. Equivalent to maid + -en.
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