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Definition of maiden : 1. A female servant.
2. A machine for washing linen.
3. An instrument resembling the guillotine, formerly used in Scotland for beheading criminals.
4. An unmarried woman; a girl or woman who has not experienced sexual intercourse; a virgin; a maid.
5. Fresh; innocent; unpolluted; pure; hitherto unused.
6. Never having been married; not having had sexual intercourse; virgin; - said usually of the woman, but sometimes of the man; as, a maiden aunt.
7. Of or pertaining to a maiden, or to maidens; suitable to, or characteristic of, a virgin; as, maiden innocence.
8. To act coyly like a maiden; - with it as an indefinite object.
9. Used of a fortress, signifying that it has never been captured, or violated.

Synonyms:

opening, earliest, amah, maidservant, maid, housemaid, maiden over, initiatory, world-class, primary, initiative, prime, start, pioneer

beginning (part of speech: adjective)

foremost, incipient, hatching, introductory, fetal, commencing, infantile, early, dawned, preparatory, formative, first, beginning, nascent, primal, primeval, Genesis, initial, aboriginal, germinal, alpha, newborn, new, original, precursory, inaugural, preliminary, embryonic, sprouting, primordial, budding, emerging, infant, starting, baby

punishment device (part of speech: noun)

rod, solitary confinement, ax, stake, rack, truncheon, iron, gibbet, bull whip, lash, rope, jail, pillory, prison, thumbscrew, switch, noose, electric chair, whipping post, whip, guillotine, birch rod, torture chamber, block, captivity, cane, thong, rawhide, strap, gas chamber, gallows, scaffold, cowhide, stocks

celibate (part of speech: noun)

intact, solitary, virginal, unplowed, monk, chaste, asexual, pure, virgin, abstemious, hermit, monastic, single, lone, alone, spinsterish, bachelor, unwed, old maid, celibate, monkish, spinster, ascetic, abstinent, unmarried

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