Usually means: Unmarried woman, initial, or original.
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We found 37 dictionaries that define the word maiden:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. maiden: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. maiden: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. maiden: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. maiden: Collins English Dictionary
  5. maiden: Vocabulary.com
  6. Maiden, maiden: Wordnik
  7. maiden: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Maiden, maiden: Wiktionary
  9. maiden: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. maiden: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. maiden: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Maiden, maiden: Dictionary.com
  13. maiden: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. maiden: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Maiden (beheading), Maiden (disambiguation), Maiden (film), Maiden (guillotine), Maiden (yacht), Maiden, The Maiden (Klimt): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Maiden: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. maiden: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. maiden: Rhymezone
  19. Maiden: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. maiden: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Maiden: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. maiden: Free Dictionary
  23. maiden: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. maiden: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. maiden: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. maiden: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Maiden (band), maiden: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. maiden: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. maiden: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. maiden: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Sports (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Horse Racing Terminology (No longer online)
  2. Maiden: Gambling Glossary
  3. Maiden: Sports Definitions

(Note: See maidens as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (now chiefly literary) A girl or an unmarried young woman.
noun:  (archaic) A female virgin.
noun:  (obsolete, dialectal) A man with no experience of sex, especially because of deliberate abstention.
noun:  A maidservant.
noun:  A clothes maiden.
noun:  (now rare) An unmarried woman, especially an older woman.
noun:  (horse racing) A racehorse without any victory, i.e. one having a "virgin record".
noun:  (horse racing) A horse race in which all starters are maidens.
noun:  (historical) A Scottish counterpart of the guillotine.
noun:  (cricket) A maiden over.
noun:  (obsolete) A machine for washing linen.
adjective:  Virgin.
adjective:  (of a female, human or animal) Without offspring.
adjective:  Like or befitting a (young, unmarried) maiden.
adjective:  (figuratively) Being a first occurrence or event.
adjective:  (cricket) Being an over in which no runs are scored.
adjective:  Fresh; innocent; unpolluted; pure; hitherto unused.
adjective:  (of a fortress) Never having been captured or violated.
adjective:  (of a tree) Grown from seed and never pruned.
noun:  (Wicca) One of the triune goddesses of the Lady in Wicca alongside the Crone and Mother representing a girl or a young woman
noun:  A surname.
noun:  Iron Maiden, a heavy metal band from England.
noun:  (Wicca) Alternative form of Maiden [(Wicca) One of the triune goddesses of the Lady in Wicca alongside the Crone and Mother representing a girl or a young woman]

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