maiden
adjective/ˈmeɪdn/
/ˈmeɪdn/
[only before noun]- being the first of its kind
- a maiden flight (= the first journey made by a plane)
- a maiden speech (= the first speech made by an MP in the parliaments of some countries)
Oxford Collocations DictionaryMaiden is used with these nouns:- aunt
- flight
- name
- …
Word OriginOld English mægden, from a Germanic diminutive meaning ‘maid, virgin’; related to German Mädchen, diminutive of Magd ‘maid’, from an Indo-European root shared by Old Irish mug ‘boy, servant’.Definitions on the go
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