different between maiden vs maide

English

Etymology

From Middle English mayden, meiden, from Old English mæ?den (“maiden, virgin, girl, maid, servant”), diminutive of mæ?þ, mæ?eþ (“maiden, virgin, girl, woman, wife”) via diminutive suffix -en, from Proto-West Germanic *magaþ, from Proto-Germanic *magaþs (“maid, virgin”). Equivalent to maid +? -en.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?me?d?n/
• Rhymes: -e?d?n

Noun

maiden (plural maidens)

1. (now chiefly literary) A girl or an unmarried young woman.
2. A female virgin.

3. (obsolete, dialectal) A man with no experience of sex, especially because of deliberate abstention.
4. A maidservant.
5. A clothes maiden.
6. (now rare) An unmarried woman, especially an older woman.
7. (horse racing) A racehorse without any victory, i.e. one having a "virgin record".
8. (horse racing) A horse race in which all starters are maidens.
9. (historical) A Scottish counterpart of the guillotine.

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10. (cricket) A maiden over.
11. (obsolete) A machine for washing linen.
12. (Wicca) Alternative form of Maiden

Synonyms

• (unmarried (young) female): bachelorette

Derived terms

Related terms

• maid

Translations

Adjective

maiden (not comparable)

1. Virgin.
   • 1857-1859, William Makepeace Thackeray, The Virginians

     a surprising old maiden lady
2. (of a female, human or animal) Without offspring.
3. Like or befitting a (young, unmarried) maiden.
4. (figuratively) Being a first occurrence or event.
5. (cricket) Being an over in which no runs are scored.
6. Fresh; innocent; unpolluted; pure; hitherto unused.
7. (of a fortress) Never having been captured or violated.

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8. (of a tree) Grown from seed and never pruned

Synonyms

• maidenly

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• Damien, Eidman, Manide, Median, Medina, Midean, aidmen, demain, maenid, mained, median, medina, meidan

Finnish

Alternative forms

• maitten

Noun

maiden

1. genitive plural of maa

Anagrams

• median

English

Noun

maide (plural maides)

1. Obsolete spelling of maid

Anagrams

• Maedi, Media, aimed, amide, media

Estonian

Noun

maide

1. genitive plural of mai

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish maide.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?ad??/

Noun

maide m (genitive singular maide, nominative plural maidí)

1. stick
2. peg
3. baton
4. (nautical) rib, timber
5. (golf) club

Declension

Synonyms

• (stick):, slat
• (peg): tairne, pionna, bacán
• (stick, baton): bata
• (rib, timber): easna

Derived terms

• (golf): maide gainimh (“sand wedge”), maide mór (“driver”)
• slis den seanmhaide (“chip off the old block”)

Mutation

References

• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “maide”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Middle Irish

Noun

maide m

1. stick

Descendants

• Irish: maide
• Manx: maidjey
• Scottish Gaelic: maide

Mutation

References

• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “maide”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Middle Irish maide.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mat??/

Noun

maide m (genitive singular maide, plural maidean or maideachan)

1. wood, timber
2. stick
3. staff, cudgel

Derived terms

Mutation

References

• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “maide”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• “maide” in Edward Dwelly, Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic–English Dictionary, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, 1911, ?ISBN.