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virgin
English
Etymology
From Middle English virgine, from Old French virgine, from Latin virginem, accusative of virg?.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?v?d??n/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?v??d??n/
- Rhymes: -??(?)d??n
Noun
virgin (plural virgins)
- A person who has never had sexual intercourse, or sometimes, one who has never engaged in any sexual activity at all. [from mid-14th c.]
- (Catholicism, Orthodoxy or historical) Someone vowed to virginity (usually a woman and often a consecrated virgin), or someone who died in defense of their virginity; (especially) one venerated as a saint. [from early 13th c.]
- (informal) One who has never used or experienced a specified thing.
- I've never eaten tofu before – you could say I'm a tofu virgin.
- Any of several species of gossamer-winged butterflies of the family Lycaenidae.
- (entomology) A female insect producing eggs from which young are hatched, though there has been no fecundation by a male; a parthenogenetic insect.
Synonyms
- (person who has never had sexual intercourse): maiden (dated; used of a woman only), unicorn bait (slang, jocular), virgo intacta (medical term; used of a woman only), vestal
Translations
Adjective
virgin (comparative more virgin, superlative most virgin)
- (usually not comparable) In a state of virginity; chaste, not having had sexual intercourse.
- 1913, DH Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, Penguin 2006, page 294:
- He was now about twenty-three years old, and, though still virgin, the sex instinct that Miriam had over refined for so long now grew particularly strong.
- 1988, Hubert Monteilhet, Neropolis:
- From their embraces was born the handsome Actaeon, a naive boy, who had less excuse than other men, given that he was her son, for believing her to be a virgin. It's true that he was even more virgin than his mother.
- 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, page 314:
- Helvidius […] took the plain meaning of scripture to say that Jesus patently had brothers and sisters, so therefore his mother, Mary, had enjoyed a normal family life rather than remaining perpetually virgin.
- 1913, DH Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, Penguin 2006, page 294:
- Of a physical object, untouched.
- c1611, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act 4 Scene 1.
- The white cold virgin snow upon my heart / Abates the ardour of my liver.
- 1932, Dorothy L Sayers, Have his Carcase, Chapter 1.
- There is something about virgin sand which arouses all the worst instincts of the detective-story writer. One feels an irresisitible impulse to go and make footprints all over it.
- c1611, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act 4 Scene 1.
- Not yet cultivated, explored, or exploited by humans or humans of certain civilizations.
- virgin prairie, a virgin ecosystem, virgin forest
- virgin clay, i.e. clay that has never been fired
- The virgin lands of the Americas were awaiting the Europeans.
- 1650, Edward Williams, Virginia: More Especially the South Part Thereof:
- The same bounty of Summer, the same milde remission of Winter, with a more virgin and unexhausted soyle being materiall arguments to shew that modesty and truth receive no diminution by the comparison.
- Inexperienced.
- Of olive oil, obtained by mechanical means, so that the oil is not altered.
- 2013, Cheryl Forberg, Cooking with Quinoa For Dummies, page 62:
- Wondering how some oil is somehow more virgin than regular virgin olive oil can be a real head-scratcher.
- 2013, Cheryl Forberg, Cooking with Quinoa For Dummies, page 62:
- (usually not comparable) Of mixed drinks, not containing alcohol.
- a virgin daiquiri
Synonyms
- (of a physical object): brand new, pristine, unspoilt, untouched
Translations
Derived terms
References
Anagrams
- Girvin, Irving, Virnig, riving, viring
Romanian
Alternative forms
- vergin (popular, dated)
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin virg?, virginem. Compare the doublet vergur?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /vir?d??in/
Adjective
virgin m or n (feminine singular virgin?, masculine plural virgini, feminine and neuter plural virgine)
- virgin, that which has not had sexual intercourse, chaste, maiden, virginal
- untouched, clean, stainless, immaculate, pure
Declension
Synonyms
- cast, fecioar?, fecioresc, feciorelnic, vergur, pur, curat, neatins
Derived terms
- virgin?
- virginitate
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demoiselle
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French demoiselle. The bird is so called on account of the grace and symmetry of its form and movements. Doublet of damsel, doncella, and donzella.
Noun
demoiselle (plural demoiselles)
- A damselfly of the family Calopterygidae.
- A young lady; a damsel; a lady's maid.
- The Numidian crane (Grus virgo).
- Synonym: demoiselle crane
Synonyms
- (damselfly): broad-winged damselfly
Translations
French
Alternative forms
- damoiselle
Etymology
From Old French damoisele, from Vulgar Latin *domnicella, diminutive of Latin domina. Compare Spanish doncella and damisela, Italian donzella and damigella, Portuguese donzela. Doublet of donzelle.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d?.mwa.z?l/
Noun
demoiselle f (plural demoiselles)
- damsel, maiden
- miss
- damselfly
Synonyms
- dlle
Derived terms
- demoiselle d'honneur
- mademoiselle
Related terms
- damoiseau
Further reading
- “demoiselle” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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