Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Archaic The condition or quality of being a maiden; virginity.
  • noun The hymen.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Virginity; maidenhood.
  • noun Newness; freshness; incipiency; also, the first of a thing.
  • noun The hymen or vaginal membrane, regarded as the physical proof of virginity.
  • noun The first using of anything.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The state of being a maiden; maidenhood; virginity.
  • noun obsolete The state of being unused or uncontaminated; freshness; purity.
  • noun The hymen, or virginal membrane.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun uncountable Virginity.
  • noun anatomy The hymen.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a fold of tissue that partly covers the entrance to the vagina of a virgin

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Middle English maidenhed : maiden, maid; see maiden + -hed, -hood.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From maiden +‎ -head

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Examples

  • Her marriage bed would be christened by blood like in the days of old, but this time it would not be that of her maidenhead.

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  • He made advances on every young female in the palace, no doubt remembering the days when they lined up to surrender their maidenhead to the heir to the throne.

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  • Her loss of maidenhead as a sordid crime or the naiveté of a young woman in what she thought was love?

    Earl of Durkness Alix Rickloff 2011

  • Her loss of maidenhead as a sordid crime or the naiveté of a young woman in what she thought was love?

    Earl of Durkness Alix Rickloff 2011

  • Her loss of maidenhead as a sordid crime or the naiveté of a young woman in what she thought was love?

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  • She had even lost 1.6 pounds in the last 36 hours - the Nutella jar had been left untouched and a virgin box of Wheat Thins had yet to lose its maidenhead.

    Steven Crandell: A is for Amy & Adonis: Chapter Q Steven Crandell 2010

  • She tells him she wants him as her husband taking her maidenhead.

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  • Will had the patience to be gentle with me my first time, and the experience to give me so much pleasure that I barely felt it when he took my maidenhead.

    Secrets of the Tudor Court Kate Emerson 2010

  • She had even lost 1.6 pounds in the last 36 hours - the Nutella jar had been left untouched and a virgin box of Wheat Thins had yet to lose its maidenhead.

    Steven Crandell: A is for Amy & Adonis: Chapter Q 2010

  • She had even lost 1.6 pounds in the last 36 hours - the Nutella jar had been left untouched and a virgin box of Wheat Thins had yet to lose its maidenhead.

    A is for Amy & Adonis: Chapter Q 2010

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