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How to pronounce “maiden”
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Pronunciation guide for maiden
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of maiden with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- What You Can Learn Crossing the Ocean in a Canoe
and take it to Tahiti on its maiden voyage.
- Definition summary
- (now chiefly literary) A girl or an unmarried young woman.
Example 1 of 8
How to pronounce maiden
What You Can Learn Crossing the Ocean in a Canoe
and take it to Tahiti on its maiden voyage.
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “maiden”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- (now chiefly literary) A girl or an unmarried young woman.
- (archaic) 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.
- [Adjective]
- 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.
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