maiden
noun/ˈmeɪdn/
/ˈmeɪdn/
- (literary) a girl or young woman who is not married
- stories of knights and fair maidens
- (also maiden over)(in cricket) an over in which no points are scoredTopics Sports: ball and racket sportsc2
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’.
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