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1. (cricket) an over in which no runs are scored
   - maiden over
    
2. [archaic] An unmarried girl (especially a virgin)
   - 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
   - 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
    
5. Of an older unmarried woman
    
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