inaugural, initiative, initiatory, first, maiden
(adjective) 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”
maid, maiden
(noun) an unmarried girl (especially a virgin)
Source: WordNet® 3.1
maiden (plural maidens)
(now chiefly literary) A girl or an unmarried young woman.
A female virgin.
(obsolete, dialectal) A man with no experience of sex, especially because of deliberate abstention.
A maidservant.
A clothes maiden.
(now rare) An unmarried woman, especially an older woman.
(horse racing) A racehorse without any victory, i.e. one having a "virgin record".
(horse racing) A horse race in which all starters are maidens.
(historical) A Scottish counterpart of the guillotine.
(cricket) A maiden over.
(obsolete) A machine for washing linen.
(Wicca) Alternative form of Maiden
• (unmarried (young) female): bachelorette
maiden (not comparable)
Virgin.
(of a female, human or animal) Without offspring.
Like or befitting a (young, unmarried) maiden.
(figuratively) Being a first occurrence or event.
(cricket) Being an over in which no runs are scored.
Fresh; innocent; unpolluted; pure; hitherto unused.
(of a fortress) Never having been captured or violated.
(of a tree) Grown from seed and never pruned
• maidenly
• Damien, Manide, Median, Medina, Midean, aidmen, demain, maenid, mained, median, medina, meidan
Maiden (plural Maidens)
(Wicca) One of the triune goddesses of the Lady in Wicca alongside the Crone and Mother representing a girl or a young woman
• Master
Maiden
A surname.
Iron Maiden, a heavy metal band from England.
• Damien, Manide, Median, Medina, Midean, aidmen, demain, maenid, mained, median, medina, meidan
Source: Wiktionary
Maid"en, n. Etym: [OE. maiden, meiden, AS. mægden, dim. of AS. mæg, fr. mago son, servant; akin to G. magd, mädchen, maid, OHG. magad, Icel. mögr son, Goth. magus boy, child, magaps virgin, and perh. to Zend. magu youth. Cf. Maid a virgin.]
1. An unmarried woman; a girl or woman who has not experienced sexual intercourse; a virgin; a maid. She employed the residue of her life to repairing of highways, building of bridges, and endowing of maidens. Carew. A maiden of our century, yet most meek. Tennyson.
2. A female servant. [Obs.]
3. An instrument resembling the guillotine, formerly used in Scotland for beheading criminals. Wharton.
4. A machine for washing linen.
Maid"en, a.
1. Of or pertaining to a maiden, or to maidens; suitable to, or characteristic of, a virgin; as, maiden innocence. "Amid the maiden throng." Addison. Have you no modesty, no maiden shame Shak.
2. Never having been married; not having had sexual intercourse; virgin; -- said usually of the woman, but sometimes of the man; as, a maiden aunt. "A surprising old maiden lady." Thackeray.
3. Fresh; innocent; unpolluted; pure; hitherto unused. "Maiden flowers.' Shak. Full bravely hast thou fleshed Thy maiden sword. Shak.
4. Used of a fortress, signifying that it has never been captured, or violated. T. Warton. Macaulay. Maiden assize (Eng. Law), an assize which there is no criminal prosecution; an assize which is unpolluted with blood. It was usual, at such an assize, for the sheriff to present the judge with a pair of white gloves. Smart.
– Maiden name, the surname of a woman before her marriage.
– Maiden pink. (Bot.) See under Pink.
– Maiden plum (Bot.), a West Indian tree (Comocladia integrifolia) with purplish drupes. The sap of the tree is glutinous, and gives a persistent black stain.
– Maiden speech, the first speech made by a person, esp. by a new member in a public body.
– Maiden tower, the tower most capable of resisting an enemy.
Maid"en, v. t.
Definition: To act coyly like a maiden; -- with it as an indefinite object. For had I maiden'd it, as many use. Loath for to grant, but loather to refuse. Bp. Hall.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
23 December 2024
(noun) Australian tree having hard white timber and glossy green leaves with white flowers followed by one-seeded glossy blue fruit
The first coffee-house in Mecca dates back to the 1510s. The beverage was in Turkey by the 1530s. It appeared in Europe circa 1515-1519 and was introduced to England by 1650. By 1675 the country had more than 3,000 coffee houses, and coffee had replaced beer as a breakfast drink.
