1. maiden - Noun
2. maiden - Adjective
3. maiden - Verb
4. maiden - Adjective Satellite
5. Maiden - Proper noun
A female servant.
An unmarried woman; a girl or woman who has not experienced sexual intercourse; a virgin; a maid.
An instrument resembling the guillotine, formerly used in Scotland for beheading criminals.
A machine for washing linen.
Of or pertaining to a maiden, or to maidens; suitable to, or characteristic of, a virgin; as, maiden innocence.
Never having been married; not having had sexual intercourse; virgin; -- said usually of the woman, but sometimes of the man; as, a maiden aunt.
Used of a fortress, signifying that it has never been captured, or violated.
To act coyly like a maiden; -- with it as an indefinite object.
Source: Webster's dictionaryA simple maiden in her flower; Is worth a hundred coats-of-arms. Alfred, Lord Tennyson
. . . you know nothing about Hope, that immortal, delicious maiden forever courted forever propitious, whom fools have called deceitful, as if it were Hope that carried the cup of disappointment, whereas it is her deadly enemy, Certainty, whom she only es. George Eliot
That orbed maiden with white fire laden, Whom mortals call the Moon. Percy Bysshe Shelley
Love came in a paper bag, said the maiden when she got a letter from her sweetheart. Finnish Proverb
You must judge a maiden at the kneading trough, and not in a dance. Danish Proverb
When we all do as we please, all the food is eaten and all the girls will be maiden. Swedish Proverb