Dictionary Entry
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.
6 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 11 · 12 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
An unmarried woman; a girl or woman who has not experienced sexual intercourse; a virgin; a maid.
- 2noun
A female servant.
- 3noun
An instrument resembling the guillotine, formerly used in Scotland for beheading criminals.
- 4noun
A machine for washing linen.
- 5adjective
Of or pertaining to a maiden, or to maidens; suitable to, or characteristic of, a virgin; as, maiden innocence.
- 6adjective
Never having been married; not having had sexual intercourse; virgin; -- said usually of the woman, but sometimes of the man; as, a maiden aunt.
- 7adjective
Fresh; innocent; unpolluted; pure; hitherto unused.
- 8adjective
Used of a fortress, signifying that it has never been captured, or violated.
- 9transitive verb
To act coyly like a maiden; -- with it as an indefinite object.
- 10noun
an unmarried girl (especially a virgin)
Synonyms
- 11noun
(cricket) an over in which no runs are scored
- 12adjective
serving to set in motion
"the magazine's inaugural issue"
"the initiative phase in the negotiations"
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