1. (cricket) an over in which no runs are scored
   "The bowler's maiden over put pressure on the batting side";
   - maiden over
    
2. [archaic] An unmarried girl (especially a virgin)
   "The fair maiden caught the eye of the young knight";
   - maid

1. Serving to set in motion
   "his first (or maiden) speech in Congress"; "the liner's maiden voyage";
   - inaugural, initiative, initiatory, first
    
2. In a state of sexual virginity
   "maiden and vestal modesty";
   - pure, vestal, virgin, virginal, virtuous
    
3. Being the first occurrence or first event of some type
   "the ship's maiden voyage"
    
4. Fresh, new, unused
   "The tennis player won her maiden Grand Slam title"
    
5. Of an older unmarried woman
   "Her maiden aunt lived in the countryside"
    
6. (of a tree or other plant) young and not trained or pruned
   "Most of our bare-root fruit trees are supplied as 1-year old maidens"

Derived forms: maidens

See also: chaste, opening

Type of: fille, girl, miss, missy [informal], over, young lady, young woman

Encyclopedia: Maiden, Mother, Crone