EGAVE

virgin

About 9.63 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun A person who has never had sexual intercourse, or an animal that has never mated.
  2. noun A person who has never engaged in any sexual activity at all. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
  3. noun Someone vowed to virginity (usually a woman and often a consecrated virgin), or someone who died in defense of their virginity; one venerated as a saint.
    In its list of saints, the Catholic Church classifies St. Agnes, St. Maria Goretti, and St. Thérèse of Lisieux as virgins.
  4. noun One who has never used or experienced a specified thing.
    I've never eaten tofu before—you could say I'm a tofu virgin.
  5. noun Any of several species of gossamer-winged butterflies of the family Lycaenidae.
  6. noun A female insect producing eggs from which young are hatched, though there has been no fecundation by a male; a parthenogenetic insect.
  7. adjective In a state of virginity; chaste, not having had sexual intercourse.
  8. adjective Of a physical object, untouched.

Similar words

virginal chaste pure virtuous new vestal clean pristine unspoiled undisturbed

Often followed by

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Word family

Virgin Virgins virgins

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