maiden

  • 31maiden — [OE] Maiden goes back to a prehistoric Germanic *magadiz ‘young (sexually inexperienced) woman’, which is also the source of German mädchen ‘girl’. Its diminutive form, *magadīnam, passed into Old English as mægden, the antecedent of modern… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 32maiden — 1 noun (C) literary a girl who is not married 2 adjective 1 maiden flight/voyage the first journey that a plane or ship makes 2 maiden speech BrE the first speech that someone makes in parliament …

    Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • 33maiden — [ˈmeɪd(ə)n] noun [C] I an old word meaning a girl or young woman who is not married II adj maiden [ˈmeɪd(ə)n] done for the first time a maiden flight[/ex] …

    Dictionary for writing and speaking English

  • 34maiden — [OE] Maiden goes back to a prehistoric Germanic *magadiz ‘young (sexually inexperienced) woman’, which is also the source of German mädchen ‘girl’. Its diminutive form, *magadīnam, passed into Old English as mægden, the antecedent of modern… …

    Word origins

  • 35Maiden — Mai|den 〈[ mɛıdən] n. 14; Sp.; Reitsp.〉 junges Pferd, das noch kein Rennen gelaufen ist [engl., „Jungfrau“] * * * Mai|den [ meɪdn], das; [s], [engl. maiden, eigtl. = Jungfrau, verw. mit ↑Magd] (Pferdesport): auf der Rennbahn noch unerprobtes… …

    Universal-Lexikon

  • 36maiden — adj. Maiden is used with these nouns: ↑aunt, ↑flight, ↑name, ↑speech, ↑voyage …

    Collocations dictionary

  • 37maiden — Synonyms and related words: ax, babe, baby, bachelor girl, bachelorlike, beardless, block, boyish, boylike, broad, calflike, callow, chaste, chick, chief, childish, childlike, colleen, coltish, cross, cutie, dame, damoiselle, damsel, death chair …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 38Maiden — Original name in latin Maiden Name in other language State code US Continent/City America/New York longitude 35.57569 latitude 81.21175 altitude 277 Population 3310 Date 2011 05 14 …

    Cities with a population over 1000 database

  • 39Maiden — Mai|den [ me:dn̩, engl. meidn] das; [s], <aus gleichbed. engl. maiden, eigtl. »Jungfrau«> auf der Rennbahn unerprobtes Pferd (Sport) …

    Das große Fremdwörterbuch

  • 40maiden — maid·en || meɪdn n. girl, unmarried woman; virgin (Archaic); device used in Scotland to behead criminals (similar to a guillotine); horse that has never won a race; maiden over, over in which no runs are made (Cricket) adj. of an unmarried girl …

    English contemporary dictionary