Virgin

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  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A person who has not experienced sexual intercourse.
  • noun. A female virgin. Used chiefly in historical contexts.
  • noun. The Virgin Mary.
  • noun. An animal that has not mated or has not been fertilized.
  • noun. A person who is inexperienced in a given activity or field.
  • adjective. undefined
  • adjective. Never having experienced sexual intercourse; chaste.
  • adjective. Relating to or being a virgin.
  • adjective. Inexperienced or about to gain first experience in a given activity or field.
  • adjective. Unaltered or barely altered by human action, especially.
  • adjective. Not traveled upon.
  • adjective. Never having had trees removed or cut down.
  • adjective. Never having been cultivated.
  • adjective. Not processed or refined.
  • adjective. Happening for the first time; initial.
  • adjective. Obtained directly from the first pressing.
  • adjective. Made with the ingredients of a cocktail but without alcohol.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To play the virgin; be or continue chaste: sometimes with indefinite it.
  • noun. A woman who has had no carnal knowledge of man; a maiden of inviolate chastity; a pure maid.
  • noun. A man who has preserved his chastity.
  • noun. One who professes perpetual virginity; especially, in the early church, one of a class or order of women who were vowed to lifelong continence.
  • noun. The state of virginity.
  • noun. A parthenogenetic insect, as an aphid; a female insect which lays eggs which hatch, though there has been no fecundation for some generations by the male.
  • noun. Any female animal which has not had young, or has not copulated.
  • noun. [capitalized] The zodiacal sign or the constellation Virgo. See Virgo.
  • Of or pertaining to a maid or virgin; being a virgin; befitting a virgin; chaste; pure; maidenly; indicating modesty.
  • Unsullied; undefiled: as, virgin snow; virgin minds.
  • Untouched; not meddled with; unused; untried; fresh; new; unalloyed: as, virgin soil.
  • In zoology, parthenogenetic, as an insect; of or pertaining to parthenogenesis: as, virgin reproduction. See agamogenesis.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Being a virgin; chaste; of or pertaining to a virgin; becoming a virgin; maidenly; modest; indicating modesty.
  • adjective. Pure; undefiled; unmixed; fresh; new
  • adjective. Not yet pregnant; impregnant.
  • noun. A woman who has had no carnal knowledge of man; a maid.
  • noun. A person of the male sex who has not known sexual indulgence.
  • noun. See Virgo.
  • noun. Any one of several species of gossamer-winged butterflies of the family Lycænidæ.
  • noun. A female insect producing eggs from which young are hatched, though there has been no fecundation by a male; a parthenogenetic insect.
  • noun. the Virgin Mary, the Mother of Jesus Christ.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. a name given to several climbing plants of the genus Clematis, as Clematis Vitalba of Europe, and Clematis Virginiana of North America.
  • intransitive verb. To act the virgin; to be or keep chaste; -- followed by it. See it, 5.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A person who has never had sexual intercourse, or sometimes, one who has never engaged in any sexual activity at all.
  • noun. Preceded by a noun, a person who has never used or experienced what is denoted by the noun.
  • adjective. In a state of virginity; chaste, not having had sexual intercourse.
  • adjective. Of a physical object, untouched.
  • adjective. Of olive oil, obtained by mechanical means, so that the oil is not altered.
  • adjective. Of mixed drinks, not containing alcohol.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. (astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Virgo
  • noun. a person who has never had sex
  • Word Usage
    "The film stars Carell as the title virgin, who works at a large electronics store and is basically a loner."
    Equivalent
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    sturgeon  surgeon  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    chaste  heavenly  holy  innocent  lonely  
    Synonym
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    Platonic  a  able  abstinent  acarpous  
    variant
    Virgo  it