'Maiden' definitions:
Definition of 'maiden'
From: WordNet
adjective
Serving to set in motion; "the magazine's inaugural issue"; "the initiative phase in the negotiations"; "an initiatory step toward a treaty"; "his first (or maiden) speech in Congress"; "the liner's maiden voyage" [syn: inaugural, initiative, initiatory, first, maiden]
noun
An unmarried girl (especially a virgin) [syn: maid, maiden]
noun
(cricket) an over in which no runs are scored [syn: maiden over, maiden]
Definition of 'Maiden'
From: GCIDE
- Maiden \Maid"en\ (m[=a]d"'n), n. [OE. maiden, meiden, AS. maegden, dim. of AS. maeg[eth], fr. mago son, servant; akin to G. magd, m[aum]dchen, maid, OHG. magad, Icel. m["o]gr son, Goth. magus boy, child, magaps virgin, and perh. to Zend. magu youth. Cf. Maid a virgin.]
- 1. An unmarried woman; a girl or woman who has not experienced sexual intercourse; a virgin; a maid. [1913 Webster]
- She employed the residue of her life to repairing of highways, building of bridges, and endowing of maidens. --Carew. [1913 Webster]
- A maiden of our century, yet most meek. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A female servant. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- 3. An instrument resembling the guillotine, formerly used in Scotland for beheading criminals. --Wharton. [1913 Webster]
- 4. A machine for washing linen. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Maiden'
From: GCIDE
- Maiden \Maid"en\, a.
- 1. Of or pertaining to a maiden, or to maidens; suitable to, or characteristic of, a virgin; as, maiden innocence. "Amid the maiden throng." --Addison. [1913 Webster]
- Have you no modesty, no maiden shame ? --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Never having been married; not having had sexual intercourse; virgin; -- said usually of the woman, but sometimes of the man; as, a maiden aunt. "A surprising old maiden lady." --Thackeray. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Fresh; innocent; unpolluted; pure; hitherto unused. "Maiden flowers." --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Full bravely hast thou fleshed Thy maiden sword. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Used of a fortress, signifying that it has never been captured, or violated. -- T. Warton. Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
- Maiden assize (Eng. Law), an assize which there is no criminal prosecution; an assize which is unpolluted with blood. It was usual, at such an assize, for the sheriff to present the judge with a pair of white gloves. --Smart.
- Maiden name, the surname of a woman before her marriage.
- Maiden pink. (Bot.) See under Pink.
- Maiden plum (Bot.), a West Indian tree ({Comocladia integrifolia}) with purplish drupes. The sap of the tree is glutinous, and gives a persistent black stain.
- Maiden speech, the first speech made by a person, esp. by a new member in a public body.
- Maiden tower, the tower most capable of resisting an enemy.
- maiden voyage the first regular service voyage of a ship. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Maiden'
From: GCIDE
- Maiden \Maid"en\, v. t. To act coyly like a maiden; -- with it as an indefinite object. [1913 Webster]
- For had I maiden'd it, as many use. Loath for to grant, but loather to refuse. --Bp. Hall. [1913 Webster]
- Maiden grass, the smaller quaking grass.
- Maiden tree. See Ginkgo. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'maiden'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- ax,
- babe,
- baby,
- bachelor girl,
- bachelorlike,
- beardless,
- block,
- boyish,
- boylike,
- broad,
- calflike,
- callow,
- chaste,
- chick,
- chief,
- childish,
- childlike,
- colleen,
- coltish,
- cross,
- cutie,
- dame,
- damoiselle,
- damsel,
- death chair,
- death chamber,
- demoiselle,
- dewy,
- doll,
- drop,
- earliest,
- electric chair,
- ever-new,
- evergreen,
- feme sole,
- filly,
- first,
- firsthand,
- fledgling,
- foremost,
- frail,
- fresh,
- front,
- gal,
- gallows,
- gallows-tree,
- gas chamber,
- gibbet,
- girl,
- girlie,
- girlish,
- girllike,
- green,
- guillotine,
- halter,
- head,
- heifer,
- hemp,
- hempen collar,
- hot seat,
- hoyden,
- husbandless,
- immature,
- inaugural,
- initial,
- intact,
- jeune fille,
- jill,
- junior miss,
- kiddish,
- lass,
- lassie,
- leading,
- lethal chamber,
- little missy,
- lone woman,
- mademoiselle,
- maid,
- maiden lady,
- maidenly,
- main,
- miss,
- missy,
- neoteric,
- nestling,
- new,
- noose,
- nymphet,
- old maid,
- old-maidish,
- original,
- piece,
- pioneer,
- premier,
- primary,
- prime,
- principal,
- pristine,
- puerile,
- puplike,
- puppyish,
- puppylike,
- quail,
- raw,
- romp,
- rope,
- scaffold,
- schoolgirl,
- schoolmaid,
- schoolmiss,
- sempervirent,
- shakedown,
- single,
- single girl,
- skirt,
- slip,
- sole,
- spinster,
- spinsterish,
- spinsterlike,
- spinsterly,
- spinstress,
- spouseless,
- stake,
- subdeb,
- subdebutante,
- subteen,
- subteener,
- teenybopper,
- the chair,
- tomato,
- tomboy,
- tree,
- unbeaten,
- undefiled,
- undeveloped,
- unfledged,
- unhandled,
- unmarried,
- untouched,
- untried,
- untrodden,
- unused,
- unwed,
- unwedded,
- vernal,
- vestal,
- vestal virgin,
- virgin,
- virginal,
- wench,
- young,
- young creature,
- young thing
Maiden, NC -- U.S. town in North Carolina
From: Gazetteer 2000
Name :
Maiden, NC -- U.S. town in North Carolina
Population (2000) :
3282
Housing Units (2000) :
1258
Land area (2000) :
4.733543 sq. miles (12.259819 sq. km)
Water area (2000) :
0.036615 sq. miles (0.094832 sq. km)
Total area (2000) :
4.770158 sq. miles (12.354651 sq. km)
FIPS code :
40660
Located within :
North Carolina (NC), FIPS 37
Location :
35.578873 N, 81.211858 W
ZIP Codes (1990) :
28650
Note :
some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.