Meaning

11 senses
  1. (literary)A girl or an unmarried young woman.

    an unmarried girl (especially a virgin)

  2. A maidservant.

  3. A clothes maiden.

  4. A racehorse without any victory, i.e. one having a "virgin record".

  5. A horse race in which all starters are maidens.

  6. (historical)A Scottish counterpart of the guillotine.

  7. A maiden over.

    (cricket) an over in which no runs are scored

  8. (archaic)A female virgin.

    She's unmarried and still a maiden.

    Jungfrau, Mädchen, Maid

    де́вушкаdévuška, деви́цаdevíca, де́ваdéva

    ді́ваdíva, дівчи́наdivčýna, па́ннаpánna

  9. (dialectal, obsolete)A man with no experience of sex, especially because of deliberate abstention.

  10. (archaic)An unmarried woman, especially an older woman.

  11. (obsolete)A machine for washing linen.

Examples

69 sentences
  1. What's your maiden name?

    Яке в тебе дівоче прізвище?

    ruКакая у тебя девичья фамилия?

    CC BY · Tatoeba · CK · B2Open on TatoebaReport a problem
  2. Mary went back to using her maiden name.

    ruМэри снова взяла свою девичью фамилию.

    CC BY · Tatoeba · CK · B2Open on TatoebaReport a problem
  3. After her divorce, Mary went back to using her maiden name.

    deNach der Scheidung nahm Maria wieder ihren Mädchennamen an.

    CC BY · Tatoeba · CK · B2Open on TatoebaReport a problem
  4. What's your mother's maiden name?

    ruКакая девичья фамилия была у твоей матери?

    deWie lautet der Mädchenname Ihrer Mutter?

    CC BY · Tatoeba · CK · B2Open on TatoebaReport a problem
  5. What's your wife's maiden name?

    ruКакая у твоей жены девичья фамилия?

    deWie lautet der Mädchenname deiner Frau?

    CC BY · Tatoeba · CK · B2Open on TatoebaReport a problem

Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 2
unmarried young female:
female virgin:
Русский
By meaning 2
unmarried young female:
female virgin:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
unmarried young female:

Origin

From Middle English mayden, meiden, from Old English mæġden (“girl”), originally a diminut

From 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.

Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0 · source

maiden — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto