virgin
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
From Old French virgine, from Latin virginem (nominative: virgo).
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Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɜː(r)dʒɪn
[edit] Noun
virgin (plural virgins)
- A person who has never had sexual intercourse, or sometimes, one who has never engaged in any sexual activity at all.
- I've always wanted to sleep with a virgin but I don't see it happening.
- (informal) Preceded by a noun, a person who has never used or experienced what is denoted by the noun.
- I've never used Google before – you could say I'm a Google virgin.
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- (person who has never had sexual intercourse): maiden (dated; used of a woman only), virgo intacta (medical term; used of a woman only)
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person who has never had sexual intercourse
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[edit] Adjective
virgin (not comparable)
- In a state of virginity; chaste, not having had sexual intercourse.
- 1913, DH Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, Penguin 2006, p. 294:
- He was now about twenty-three years old, and, though still virgin, the sex instinct that Miriam had over refined for so long now grew particularly strong.
- 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 314:
- Helvidius [...] took the plain meaning of scripture to say that Jesus patently had brothers and sisters, so therefore his mother, Mary, had enjoyed a normal family life rather than remaining perpetually virgin.
- 1913, DH Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, Penguin 2006, p. 294:
- Of a physical object, untouched.
- Of olive oil, obtained by mechanical means, so that the oil is not altered.
- Of mixed drinks, not containing alcohol.
- a virgin daiquiri
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of a person, in a state of virginity
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of an object, untouched
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of olive oil
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[edit] Alternative forms
- vergin (popular, dated)
[edit] Etymology
Borrowed from Latin virgō, virginem. Cf. vergură.
[edit] Adjective
virgin
- virgin, that which has not had sexual intercourse, chaste, maiden, virginal
- untouched, clean, stainless, immaculate, pure
