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
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Examples
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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.
Frog Breath Diane D. Gillette 2012
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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
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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
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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
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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
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She tells him she wants him as her husband taking her maidenhead.
The Conquest-Julia Templeton « The Merry Genre Go Round Reviews 2008
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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
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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.
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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.
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