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Maiden is an old-fashioned word for a young, woman - you'll mostly meet it in old stories, fairy tales, and poems now, not in normal daily conversation. As an adjective, 'maiden' describes the very first time something happens, especially with ships, planes, or public speeches - a ship's 'maiden voyage' is its first trip ever.
少女、未婚女子（較文言、常見於童話故事）／首次的（如首航 maiden voyage）
組成Though actually, this old word came first - the shorter, more common word 'maid' is actually a clipped-down form of 'maiden', not the other way around.
同家族的字
- maidmaid is a shortened form of the older word maiden
原始詞典資料24 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Maidennoun
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WiccalifestylereligionOne of the triune goddesses of the Lady in Wicca alongside the Crone and Mother representing a girl or a young woman
- […] different stages of life as represented by our Lady as Maiden, Mother, and Crone, as well as our Lord as Master, Father, and Sage.
- The Lady is often thought of as having three aspects: Maiden, Mother, and Crone.
Maidenname
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astrologyastronomyhuman-sciencesThe constellation and zodiacal sign Virgo.
- "'Tis the simplest thing in the world, sir," said Sheridan. "Virgo, the Maiden, follows Leo, the Lion, in society, as well as in the Zodiac."
- In the top left-hand corner was the emblem of the company - a young woman holding up an ear of corn. The stranger had given him the Sign of the Maiden!
Maidenname
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A surname.
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Iron Maiden, a heavy metal band from England.
maidennoun/ˈmeɪdən/
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literaryA girl or an unmarried young woman.
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archaicA female virgin.
- She's unmarried and still a maiden.
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obsoletedialectalA man with no experience of sex, especially because of deliberate abstention.
- As for that ſaid ſire Bors I wille be ſhryuen with a good wylle / Soo ſyr Bors was confeſſyd / and for al wymmen ſir Bors was a vyrgyne / ſauf for one / that was the doughter of kynge Brangorys / and on her he gat a child that hyghte Elayne / and ſauf for her ſyre Bors was a clene mayden[…]
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A maidservant.
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A clothes maiden.
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archaicAn unmarried woman, especially an older woman.
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hobbieshorse-racinghorseracingA racehorse without any victory, i.e. one having a "virgin record".
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hobbieshorse-racinghorseracingA horse race in which all starters are maidens.
另外 3 個記錄的用法
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historicalA Scottish counterpart of the guillotine.
- It had been customary during the whole civil war, to decapitate state criminals by the instrument called the maiden; but Montrose was condemned to a more ignominious death , by a gibbet thirty feet high
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ball-gamescricketgamesA maiden over.
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obsoleteA machine for washing linen.
maidenadj/ˈmeɪdən/
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Virgin.
- a surprising old maiden lady
- It was just the middle of October when I moved in with my maiden sister […]
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Without offspring.
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Like or befitting a (young, unmarried) maiden.
- Haue you no modeſty, no maiden ſhame, / No touch of baſhfulneſſe?
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Being a first occurrence or event.
- 1975 was the year when West Indies won their maiden World Cup title.
- The Titanic sank on its maiden voyage.
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ball-gamescricketgamesBeing an over in which no runs are scored.
- He bowled a record twelve maiden overs in his spell of 8-33 in 21 overs.
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Fresh; innocent; unpolluted; pure; hitherto unused.
- Come Brother Iohn, full brauely haſt thou fleſht thy Maiden ſword.
- When I am dead, good Wench, / Let me be vs’d with Honor; ſtrew me ouer / With Maiden Flowers, that all the world may know / I was a chaſte Wife, to my Graue: Embalme me, / Then lay me forth (although vnqueen’d) yet like / A Queene, and Daughter to a King enterre me.
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Never having been captured or violated.
- Victorie forsook him for ever since he ransacked the maiden town of Magdenburg
- But every citizen considered his own honor as bound up with the honor of the maiden fortress.
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Grown from seed and never pruned.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。