maiden
maiden is a 6-letter English word with 12 senses as noun, adjective, and transitive verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: An unmarried woman; a girl or woman who has not experienced sexual intercourse; a virgin; a maid. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- noun. An unmarried woman; a girl or woman who has not experienced sexual intercourse; a virgin; a maid.
- noun. A female servant.
- noun. An instrument resembling the guillotine, formerly used in Scotland for beheading criminals.
- noun. A machine for washing linen.
- adjective. Of or pertaining to a maiden, or to maidens; suitable to, or characteristic of, a virgin; as, maiden innocence.
- adjective. Never having been married; not having had sexual intercourse; virgin; -- said usually of the woman, but sometimes of the man; as, a maiden aunt.
- adjective. Fresh; innocent; unpolluted; pure; hitherto unused.
- adjective. Used of a fortress, signifying that it has never been captured, or violated.
- transitive verb. To act coyly like a maiden; -- with it as an indefinite object.
- noun. an unmarried girl (especially a virgin)
- noun. (cricket) an over in which no runs are scored
- adjective. serving to set in motion
"the magazine's inaugural issue"
"the initiative phase in the negotiations"
Synonyms
maid, first, inaugural, initiative, initiatory
Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in maiden:
aidmen, daimen, damine, demain, dimane, median, medina
Common word forms
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