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maiden

noun
🔊/ˈmeɪdn/
🔊/ˈmeɪdn/
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  1. (literary) a young girl or woman who is not married少女；处女；未婚女子
    • stories of knights and fair maidens关于骑士和美女的故事
  2. (also maiden over)
     (in cricket板球) an over in which no points are scored未得分的一轮投球Topics Sports: ball and racket sportsc2
    3. Word OriginOld English mægden, from a Germanic diminutive meaning ‘maid, virgin’; related to German Mädchen, diminutive of Magd ‘maid’, from an Indo-European root shared by Old Irish mug ‘boy, servant’.

maiden

adjective
🔊/ˈmeɪdn/
🔊/ˈmeɪdn/
[only before noun]
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  1. being the first of its kind首次的；初次的
    • a maiden flight/voyage (= the first journey made by a plane/ship)初次飞行；首航
    • a maiden speech (= the first speech made by an MP in the parliaments of some countries)议员在议会的初次演讲
    Oxford Collocations DictionaryMaiden is used with these nouns:
    • aunt
    • flight
    • name
    • …
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    Word OriginOld English mægden, from a Germanic diminutive meaning ‘maid, virgin’; related to German Mädchen, diminutive of Magd ‘maid’, from an Indo-European root shared by Old Irish mug ‘boy, servant’.