Vaihtoehtoiset kirjoitusmuodot
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| Käännös | Konteksti |
|---|
| Substantiivit |
| 1. | | kirjakieli |
| 2. | | vanhahtava, kirjakieli |
Määritelmät
Substantiivit
- (now chiefly literary) A girl or an unmarried young woman.
- A female virgin.
- (obsolete, dialectal) A man with no experience of sex, especially because of deliberate abstention.
- A maidservant.
- (now rare) An unmarried woman, especially an older woman.
- A racehorse without any victory ('virgin record').
- (historical) A Scottish counterpart of the guillotine.
- (cricket) A maiden over.
- (obsolete) A machine for washing linen.
Adjektiivit
- Virgin.
- (of a female, human or animal) Without offspring.
- Like or befitting a (young, unmarried) maiden.
- (figuratively) Being a first occurrence or event.
- (cricket) Being an over in which no runs are scored.
- Fresh; innocent; unpolluted; pure; hitherto unused.
- Of a fortress, never having been captured or violated.
Esimerkit
- She's unmarried and still a maiden.
- 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
- a surprising old maiden lady
- Have you no modesty, no maiden shame?
- The Titanic sank on its maiden voyage.
- After Edmund Burke's maiden speech, William Pitt the Elder said Burke had "spoken in such a manner as to stop the mouths of all Europe" and that the Commons should congratulate itself on acquiring such a member.
- Venezuelan Pastor Maldonado took his maiden victory and Williams's first since 2004 in a strategic battle with Ferrari's Fernando Alonso.
- maiden flowers
- Full bravely hast thou fleshed / Thy maiden sword.
- The ship made its maiden voyage.
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