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maiden
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)
- (now chiefly literary) A girl or an unmarried young woman.
- 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.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Wharton to this entry?)
- (cricket) A maiden over.
- (obsolete) A machine for washing linen.
- (Wicca) Alternative form of Maiden
Synonyms
- (unmarried (young) female): bachelorette
Derived terms
Related terms
- maid
Translations
Adjective
maiden (not comparable)
- Virgin.
- 1857-1859, William Makepeace Thackeray, The Virginians
- a surprising old maiden lady
- 1857-1859, William Makepeace Thackeray, The Virginians
- (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.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of T. Warton to this entry?)
- (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
- genitive plural of maa
Anagrams
- median
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mature
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /m??tj??/, /m??t???/, /m??t???/
- (US) IPA(key): /m??t??(?)?/, /m??t??/, /m??t(j)???/
- Rhymes: -??(?), -??(?), -??(?)
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Middle French mature, from Latin m?t?rus. Doublet of maduro. Partially displaced ripe, from Old English r?pe (“ripe, mature”).
Adjective
mature (comparative maturer or more mature, superlative maturest or most mature)
- Fully developed; grown up in terms of physical appearance, behaviour or thinking; ripe.
- Brought to a state of complete readiness.
- Profound; careful.
- (medicine, obsolete) Come to, or in a state of, completed suppuration.
- (television, film) Suitable for adults only, due to sexual themes, violence, etc.
Synonyms
- (grown up in terms of physical appearance): adult, grown; see also Thesaurus:full-grown
- (grown up in terms of behaviour or thinking): adultish, grown up; see also Thesaurus:mature
- (suitable for adults only): adult; see also Thesaurus:for adults
Antonyms
- (grown up): childish, immature
- (profound): superficial
Derived terms
- maturation
- maturely
- matureness
- maturity
- sexually mature
Translations
Etymology 2
From French maturer (“to mature”), from Latin m?t?r?.
Verb
mature (third-person singular simple present matures, present participle maturing, simple past and past participle matured)
- (intransitive) To proceed toward maturity: full development or completion (either of concrete or of abstract things, e.g. plans, judgments, qualities).
- Synonyms: develop, grow, progress, ripen
- (intransitive, of food, especially fruit) To attain maturity, to become mature or ripe.
- Synonyms: ripen, ripen up
- (transitive) To bring (something) to maturity, full development, or completion.
- (transitive) To make (something, e.g. fruit) ripe or mature.
- Synonym: ripen
- (intransitive, of a person) To proceed toward or become mature or full-grown, either physically or psychologically; to gain experience or wisdom with age.
- Synonyms: age, develop, grow up; see also Thesaurus:to age
- (transitive) To make (someone) mature.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:make older
- (intransitive, finance) To reach the date when payment is due.
Synonyms
- maturate
Derived terms
- maturable
- mature up
Translations
Anagrams
- tamure
French
Etymology
From Middle French mature, borrowed from Latin m?t?rus. Doublet of mûr.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ma.ty?/
- Homophones: maturent, matures
Adjective
mature (plural matures)
- (of a person) mature
Verb
mature
- first-person singular present indicative of maturer
- third-person singular present indicative of maturer
- first-person singular present subjunctive of maturer
- third-person singular present subjunctive of maturer
- second-person singular imperative of maturer
Further reading
- “mature” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Italian
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ure
Adjective
mature f pl
- feminine plural of maturo
Anagrams
- murate
- mutare
- muterà
Latin
Adjective
m?t?re
- vocative masculine singular of m?t?rus
References
- mature in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- mature in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- mature in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
Middle English
Noun
mature
- Alternative form of matere
Portuguese
Verb
mature
- first-person singular present subjunctive of maturar
- third-person singular present subjunctive of maturar
- third-person singular imperative of maturar
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