maiden
A girl or an unmarried young womanA girl or an unmarried young woman.
» What's your maiden name?
Какая у тебя девичья фамилия?
Яке в тебе дівоче прізвище?
Яке у вас дівоче прізвище?
Meaning
11 senses(literary)A girl or an unmarried young woman.
an unmarried girl (especially a virgin)
A maidservant.
A clothes maiden.
A racehorse without any victory, i.e. one having a "virgin record".
A horse race in which all starters are maidens.
(historical)A Scottish counterpart of the guillotine.
A maiden over.
(cricket) an over in which no runs are scored
(archaic)A female virgin.
She's unmarried and still a maiden.
Jungfrau, Mädchen, Maid
де́вушкаdévuška, деви́цаdevíca, де́ваdéva
ді́ваdíva, дівчи́наdivčýna, па́ннаpánna
(dialectal, obsolete)A man with no experience of sex, especially because of deliberate abstention.
(archaic)An unmarried woman, especially an older woman.
(obsolete)A machine for washing linen.
Examples
69 sentencesWhat's your maiden name?
Яке в тебе дівоче прізвище?
ruКакая у тебя девичья фамилия?
Mary went back to using her maiden name.
ruМэри снова взяла свою девичью фамилию.
After her divorce, Mary went back to using her maiden name.
deNach der Scheidung nahm Maria wieder ihren Mädchennamen an.
What's your mother's maiden name?
ruКакая девичья фамилия была у твоей матери?
deWie lautet der Mädchenname Ihrer Mutter?
What's your wife's maiden name?
ruКакая у твоей жены девичья фамилия?
deWie lautet der Mädchenname deiner Frau?
Translations
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Origin
From Middle English mayden, meiden, from Old English mæġden (“girl”), originally a diminutFrom Middle English mayden, meiden, from Old English mæġden (“girl”), originally a diminutive of mæġeþ (“girl”) via diminutive suffix -en, from Proto-West Germanic *magaþ, from Proto-Germanic *magaþs. Equivalent to maid + -en.
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Forms
plural: maidensSynonyms
3 synonyms- an unmarried girl (especially a virgin):maid
- (cricket) an over in which no runs are scored:maiden over