Virgin

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A person who has not experienced sexual intercourse.
  • n. A chaste or unmarried woman; a maiden.
  • n. An unmarried woman who has taken religious vows of chastity.
  • n. The Virgin Mary.
  • n. Zoology A female insect or other arthropod that produces fertile eggs without copulating.
  • adj. Of, relating to, or being a virgin; chaste.
  • adj. Being in a pure or natural state; unsullied: virgin snow.
  • adj. Unused, uncultivated, or unexplored: virgin territory.
  • adj. Existing in native or raw form; not processed or refined.
  • adj. Happening for the first time; initial.
  • adj. Obtained directly from the first pressing: virgin olive oil.
  • adj. Zoology Producing fertile eggs without copulating.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A person who has never had sexual intercourse, or sometimes, one who has never engaged in any sexual activity at all.
  • n. Preceded by a noun, a person who has never used or experienced what is denoted by the noun.
  • adj. In a state of virginity; chaste, not having had sexual intercourse.
  • adj. Of a physical object, untouched.
  • adj. Of olive oil, obtained by mechanical means, so that the oil is not altered.
  • adj. Of mixed drinks, not containing alcohol.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A woman who has had no carnal knowledge of man; a maid.
  • n. A person of the male sex who has not known sexual indulgence.
  • n. See Virgo.
  • n. Any one of several species of gossamer-winged butterflies of the family Lycænidæ.
  • n. A female insect producing eggs from which young are hatched, though there has been no fecundation by a male; a parthenogenetic insect.
  • adj. Being a virgin; chaste; of or pertaining to a virgin; becoming a virgin; maidenly; modest; indicating modesty.
  • adj. Pure; undefiled; unmixed; fresh; new
  • adj. Not yet pregnant; impregnant.
  • verb-intransitive. To act the virgin; to be or keep chaste; -- followed by it. See it, 5.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A woman who has had no carnal knowledge of man; a maiden of inviolate chastity; a pure maid.
  • n. A man who has preserved his chastity.
  • n. One who professes perpetual virginity; especially, in the early church, one of a class or order of women who were vowed to lifelong continence.
  • n. The state of virginity.
  • n. A parthenogenetic insect, as an aphid; a female insect which lays eggs which hatch, though there has been no fecundation for some generations by the male.
  • n. Any female animal which has not had young, or has not copulated.
  • n. [capitalized] The zodiacal sign or the constellation Virgo. See Virgo.
  • Of or pertaining to a maid or virgin; being a virgin; befitting a virgin; chaste; pure; maidenly; indicating modesty.
  • Unsullied; undefiled: as, virgin snow; virgin minds.
  • Untouched; not meddled with; unused; untried; fresh; new; unalloyed: as, virgin soil.
  • In zoology, parthenogenetic, as an insect; of or pertaining to parthenogenesis: as, virgin reproduction. See agamogenesis.
  • To play the virgin; be or continue chaste: sometimes with indefinite it.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. (astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Virgo
  • n. a person who has never had sex
  • adj. in a state of sexual virginity
  • n. the sixth sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about August 23 to September 22
  • adj. being used or worked for the first time
  • Equivalent
    chaste    new    the blessed virgin   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    person    mortal    individual    someone    soul    somebody    innocent    inexperienced person    sign of the zodiac    sign   
    Variant
    Virgo    it   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    maid    chaste    maidenly    modest    pure    undefiled    unmixed    fresh    new    impregnant   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    sturgeon    surgeon   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    maiden    thy    holy    heavenly    innocent    lonely    pale    youthful    chaste