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starting
English
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?st??t??/, [?st??t.??], [?st?????]
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?st??t??/
- Rhymes: -??(?)t??
- Hyphenation: start?ing
Verb
starting
- present participle of start
Derived terms
Noun
starting (plural startings)
- The act of something that starts.
- constant startings and stoppings
Anagrams
- rattings
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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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