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How to pronounce “virgin”
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Pronunciation guide for virgin
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of virgin with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Liam Young: Planet City -- a sci-fi vision of an astonishing regenerative future
To build Planet City, we could remine our old cities rather than virgin ground.
- Definition summary
- A person who has never had sexual intercourse, or (uncommonly) an animal that has never mated.
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How to pronounce virgin
Liam Young: Planet City -- a sci-fi vision of an astonishing regenerative future
To build Planet City, we could remine our old cities rather than virgin ground.
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “virgin”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- A person who has never had sexual intercourse, or (uncommonly) an animal that has never mated.
- A person who has never engaged in any sexual activity at all. [from mid-14th c.][1]
- (Catholicism, Orthodoxy or historical) Someone vowed to virginity (usually a woman and often a consecrated virgin), or someone who died in defense of their virginity; (especially) one venerated as a saint. [from early 13th c.][2]
- (informal) One who has never used or experienced a specified thing.
- Any of several species of gossamer-winged butterflies of the family Lycaenidae.
- (entomology) A female insect producing eggs from which young are hatched, though there has been no fecundation by a male; a parthenogenetic insect.
- [Adjective]
- (usually not comparable) In a state of virginity; chaste, not having had sexual intercourse.
- Of a physical object, untouched.
- Not yet cultivated, explored, or exploited by humans or humans of certain civilizations.
- Inexperienced.
- Of olive oil, obtained by mechanical means, so that the oil is not altered.
- (usually not comparable) Of mixed drinks, not containing alcohol.
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