maidenhead

English

Etymology

From maiden +‎ -head

Noun

maidenhead (countable and uncountable; plural maidenheads)

1. (uncountable) Virginity.
   • 1977, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, Penguin Classics, p. 363:

     My lord, [...] / I brought you nothing else it may be said / But faith and nakedness and maidenhead.

2. (anatomy) The hymen.

Synonyms

• (virginity) maidhood, maidenhood

Related terms

• maidenliness

Translations

virginity

• Dutch: maagdelijkheid (nl) f

• Finnish: neitsyys (fi)

hymen

• Dutch: maagdenvlies (nl) n
• Finnish: immenkalvo (fi)

• Portuguese: hímen (pt) m

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• French: virginité