virgin - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'virgin' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Virgin

[ a.]

- Being a virgin; chaste; of or pertaining to a virgin; becoming a virgin; maidenly; modest; indicating modesty; as, a virgin blush.
- Pure; undefiled; unmixed; fresh; new; as, virgin soil; virgin gold.
- Not yet pregnant; impregnant.

2 . Virgin

[ n.]

- A woman who has had no carnal knowledge of man; a maid.
- A person of the male sex who has not known sexual indulgence.
- See Virgo.
- Any one of several species of gossamer-winged butterflies of the family Lycaenidae.
- A female insect producing eggs from which young are hatched, though there has been no fecundation by a male; a parthenogenetic insect.

3 . Virgin

[ v. i.]

- To act the virgin; to be or keep chaste; -- followed by it. See It, 5.

Meaning of 'virgin' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . virgin

[ s]

Meaning (1):
- in a state of sexual virginity

Example in sentence:

a spinster or virgin lady;
men have decreed that their women must be pure and virginal;
pure and vestal modesty

Meaning (2):
- being used or worked for the first time

Example in sentence:

virgin wool

Nearby Words:

viraginian viraginity virago viragoes vire virelay virent vireo virescence virescent

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