virgin
Virgin
vir·gin
(vûr′jĭn)n.
1.
a. A person who has not experienced sexual intercourse.
b. A female virgin. Used chiefly in historical contexts.
2. Virgin The Virgin Mary.
3. Zoology An animal that has not mated or has not been fertilized.
4. A person who is inexperienced in a given activity or field: "all these [factors] kept me a gun virgin well into midlife" (Michael DiLeo).
adj.
1.
a. Never having experienced sexual intercourse; chaste.
b. Zoology Relating to or being a virgin.
2. Inexperienced or about to gain first experience in a given activity or field: a virgin skydiver.
3. Unaltered or barely altered by human action, especially:
a. Not traveled upon: virgin snow.
b. Never having had trees removed or cut down: a virgin forest.
c. Never having been cultivated: virgin land.
d. Not processed or refined: virgin ore; virgin wood pulp.
4. Happening for the first time; initial: a ship's virgin voyage.
5. Obtained directly from the first pressing: virgin olive oil.
6. Made with the ingredients of a cocktail but without alcohol.
[Middle English, from Old French virgine, from Latin virgō, virgin-.]
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virgin
(ˈvɜːdʒɪn)n
1. a person, esp a woman, who has never had sexual intercourse
2. (Ecclesiastical Terms) an unmarried woman who has taken a religious vow of chastity in order to dedicate herself totally to God
3. (Zoology) any female animal that has never mated
4. (Zoology) a female insect that produces offspring by parthenogenesis
5. a person who is new to or inexperienced in a specified field: a political virgin.
adj (usually prenominal)
6. of, relating to, resembling, suitable for, or characteristic of a virgin or virgins; chaste
7. pure and natural; uncorrupted, unsullied, or untouched: virgin purity.
8. not yet cultivated, explored, exploited, etc, by man: virgin territories.
9. being the first or happening for the first time
10. (Elements & Compounds) (of vegetable oils) obtained directly by the first pressing of fruits, leaves, or seeds of plants without applying heat
11. (Metallurgy) (of a metal) made from an ore rather than from scrap
12. occurring naturally in a pure and uncombined form: virgin silver.
13. (Atomic Physics) physics (of a neutron) not having experienced a collision
[C13: from Old French virgine, from Latin virgō virgin]
Virgin
(ˈvɜːdʒɪn)n
2. (Art Terms) a statue or other artistic representation of the Virgin Mary
Virgin
(ˈvɜːdʒɪn)n
(Astronomy) the Virgin the constellation Virgo, the sixth sign of the zodiac
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vir•gin
(ˈvɜr dʒɪn)n.
1. a person who has never had sexual intercourse.
2. an unmarried girl or woman.
3. the Virgin, Mary, the mother of Jesus.
4. Informal. any person who is uninitiated, uninformed, or the like.
5. an animal, esp. a female, that has not copulated.
6.
a. a female insect that lays viable eggs without male fertilization.
b. the female resulting from such an egg.
8. being a virgin.
9. of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a virgin.
10. pure; unsullied.
11. first: the senator's virgin speech.
12. without alloy or modification: virgin gold.
13. not previously exploited or used: virgin timberlands.
14. Zool. not fertilized.
15. (esp. of olive oil) obtained by the first light pressing and without the application of heat.
[1150–1200; Middle English virgine < Anglo-French, Old French < Latin virgin-, s. of virgō]
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
| Noun | 1. |  virgin - a person who has never had sex inexperienced person, innocent - a person who lacks knowledge of evil |
| 2. |  Virgin - (astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Virgoindividual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul - a human being; "there was too much for one person to do" astrology, star divination - a pseudoscience claiming divination by the positions of the planets and sun and moon | |
| 3. |  Virgin - the sixth sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about August 23 to September 22 | |
| Adj. | 1. |  virgin - being used or worked for the first time; "virgin wool"new - not of long duration; having just (or relatively recently) come into being or been made or acquired or discovered; "a new law"; "new cars"; "a new comet"; "a new friend"; "a new year"; "the New World" |
| 2. |  virgin - in a state of sexual virginity; "pure and vestal modesty"; "a spinster or virgin lady"; "men have decreed that their women must be pure and virginal"chaste - morally pure (especially not having experienced sexual intercourse); "a holy woman innocent and chaste" |
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virgin
adjective
1. untouched, immaculate, fresh, new, pure, unused, pristine, flawless, unblemished, unadulterated, unsullied Within 40 years there will be no virgin forest left.
untouched spoiled, used, dirty, contaminated, polluted, impure
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virgin
nounA pure, uncorrupted person:
Morally beyond reproach, especially in sexual conduct:
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Translations
panicpanna
jomfru
neitsytneitseellinen
djevica
szûz
jómfrú; hrein mey; hreinn sveinn
処女
처녀
virgo
mergelėmergiškasmergystė
jaunava
panna
oskuld
หญิงพรหมจารี
trinh nữ
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virgin
(ˈvəːdʒin) nouna person, especially a woman, who has had no sexual intercourse. She was still a virgin when she married.
ˈvirginal adjectiveof a virgin. Her face had a virginal look.
virˈginity nounthe state of being a virgin.
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virgin
→ عَذْرَاء panic jomfru Jungfrau παρθένος virgen, vírgen neitsyt vierge djevica vergine 処女 처녀 maagd jomfru dziewica virgem девственник oskuld หญิงพรหมจารี bakire trinh nữ 处女Multilingual Translator © HarperCollins Publishers 2009
vir·gin
n. virgen.
1. sustancia sin contaminación;
2. persona que no ha realizado el acto sexual.
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