Usually means: Unmarried woman beyond typical age.
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We found 23 dictionaries that define the word old maid:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. old maid: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. old maid: Merriam-Webster
  3. old maid: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. old maid: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. old maid: Collins English Dictionary
  6. old maid: Vocabulary.com
  7. old-maid, old maid: Wordnik
  8. old maid: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Old Maid, old maid: Wiktionary
  10. old maid: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. old maid: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Old maid, old maid: Dictionary.com
  13. Old Maid (disambiguation), Old Maid, Old maid (card game), Old maid (disambiguation), Old maid, The Old Maid (play): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. old maid: Rhymezone
  15. old maid: FreeDictionary.org
  16. old maid: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. old maid: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. old maid: Encyclopedia

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Old Maid: Botanical Name listing of Plants

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. old maid: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Old Maid: Card Games

(Note: See old-maidish as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Old Maid)

noun:  (derogatory) An old woman who has never married; a spinster.
noun:  The Madagascar periwinkle.
noun:  The common zinnia.
noun:  An unpopped kernel in a batch of popped popcorn kernels.
noun:  (uncountable) A card game in which cards must be paired and one undesirable card is designated "old maid".
noun:  The unmatchable card in that game.
noun:  (uncountable) A children's card game, sometimes played with a special deck, where the object of the game is for each player to find matches for all the cards in his hand, without being stuck with the single unmatchable card.
noun:  (countable) The unmatchable card itself.

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