Noun
commonly cultivated Old World woody herb having large pinkish to red flowers
a card game using a pack of cards from which one queen has been removed; players match cards and the player holding the unmatched queen at the end of the game is the loser (or `old maid')
the loser in a game of old maid
an elderly unmarried woman
any of various plants of the genus Zinnia cultivated for their variously and brightly colored flower heads
Source: WordNetold-maid
A nation too long at peace becomes a sort of gigantic old maid.” Source: Internet
In her early novel Dawn O'Hara, the title character's aunt is said to have remarked, "Being an old maid was a great deal like death by drowning – a really delightful sensation when you ceased struggling." Source: Internet
Described by her friend Dolly Bantry as “the typical old maid of fiction,” Miss Marple has lived almost her entire life in the sleepy hamlet of St. Mary Mead. Source: Internet
Sometimes she can be a spinster, an old maid, a washed up, little ol' bitty. Source: Internet
The central character--in many ways--is a little old maid Miss Matty. Source: Internet
Not only an old maid, but an old maid with what was, in that day, considered to be a shameful secret. Source: Internet