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Virgin

See Virgo.

vir·gin

(vûr′jĭn)

a. A person who has not experienced sexual intercourse.

b. A female virgin. Used chiefly in historical contexts.

2. Virgin The Virgin Mary.

3. Zoology An animal that has not mated or has not been fertilized.

4. A person who is inexperienced in a given activity or field: "all these [factors] kept me a gun virgin well into midlife" (Michael DiLeo).

adj.

a. Never having experienced sexual intercourse; chaste.

b. Zoology Relating to or being a virgin.

2. Inexperienced or about to gain first experience in a given activity or field: a virgin skydiver.

3. Unaltered or barely altered by human action, especially:

a. Not traveled upon: virgin snow.

b. Never having had trees removed or cut down: a virgin forest.

c. Never having been cultivated: virgin land.

d. Not processed or refined: virgin ore; virgin wood pulp.

4. Happening for the first time; initial: a ship's virgin voyage.

5. Obtained directly from the first pressing: virgin olive oil.

6. Made with the ingredients of a cocktail but without alcohol.

[Middle English, from Old French virgine, from Latin virgō, virgin-.]

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virgin

(ˈvɜːdʒɪn)

1. a person, esp a woman, who has never had sexual intercourse

2. (Ecclesiastical Terms) an unmarried woman who has taken a religious vow of chastity in order to dedicate herself totally to God

3. (Zoology) any female animal that has never mated

4. (Zoology) a female insect that produces offspring by parthenogenesis

5. a person who is new to or inexperienced in a specified field: a political virgin.

adj (usually prenominal)

6. of, relating to, resembling, suitable for, or characteristic of a virgin or virgins; chaste

7. pure and natural; uncorrupted, unsullied, or untouched: virgin purity.

8. not yet cultivated, explored, exploited, etc, by man: virgin territories.

9. being the first or happening for the first time

10. (Elements & Compounds) (of vegetable oils) obtained directly by the first pressing of fruits, leaves, or seeds of plants without applying heat

11. (Metallurgy) (of a metal) made from an ore rather than from scrap

12. occurring naturally in a pure and uncombined form: virgin silver.

13. (Atomic Physics) physics (of a neutron) not having experienced a collision

[C13: from Old French virgine, from Latin virgō virgin]

Virgin

(ˈvɜːdʒɪn)

1. (Bible) the Virgin See Virgin Mary

2. (Art Terms) a statue or other artistic representation of the Virgin Mary

Virgin

(ˈvɜːdʒɪn)

(Astronomy) the Virgin the constellation Virgo, the sixth sign of the zodiac

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vir•gin

(ˈvɜr dʒɪn)

n.

1. a person who has never had sexual intercourse.

2. an unmarried girl or woman.

3. the Virgin, Mary, the mother of Jesus.

4. Informal. any person who is uninitiated, uninformed, or the like.

5. an animal, esp. a female, that has not copulated.

a. a female insect that lays viable eggs without male fertilization.

b. the female resulting from such an egg.

7. (cap.) Virgo.

adj.

8. being a virgin.

9. of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a virgin.

10. pure; unsullied.

11. first: the senator's virgin speech.

12. without alloy or modification: virgin gold.

13. not previously exploited or used: virgin timberlands.

14. Zool. not fertilized.

15. (esp. of olive oil) obtained by the first light pressing and without the application of heat.

[1150–1200; Middle English virgine < Anglo-French, Old French < Latin virgin-, s. of virgō]

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Noun	1.	virgin - a person who has never had sex inexperienced person, innocent - a person who lacks knowledge of evil
	2.	Virgin - (astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Virgo Virgo individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul - a human being; "there was too much for one person to do" astrology, star divination - a pseudoscience claiming divination by the positions of the planets and sun and moon
	3.	Virgin - the sixth sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about August 23 to September 22 Virgo the Virgin, Virgo
Adj.	1.	virgin - being used or worked for the first time; "virgin wool" new - not of long duration; having just (or relatively recently) come into being or been made or acquired or discovered; "a new law"; "new cars"; "a new comet"; "a new friend"; "a new year"; "the New World"
	2.	virgin - in a state of sexual virginity; "pure and vestal modesty"; "a spinster or virgin lady"; "men have decreed that their women must be pure and virginal" vestal, virtuous, virginal, pure chaste - morally pure (especially not having experienced sexual intercourse); "a holy woman innocent and chaste"

virgin

noun

1. maiden, maid (archaic), damsel (archaic), girl (archaic), celibate, vestal, virgo intacta I was a virgin until I was twenty-four years old.

adjective

1. untouched, immaculate, fresh, new, pure, unused, pristine, flawless, unblemished, unadulterated, unsullied Within 40 years there will be no virgin forest left.
untouched spoiled, used, dirty, contaminated, polluted, impure

2. pure, maidenly, chaste, immaculate, virginal, unsullied, vestal, uncorrupted, undefiled a society in which men still prize virgin brides
pure corrupted, defiled, impure

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virgin

noun

A pure, uncorrupted person:

angel, innocent, lamb.

adjective

Morally beyond reproach, especially in sexual conduct:

chaste, decent, modest, nice, pure, virginal, virtuous.

Translations

عَذْراءعَذْرَاء

panicpanna

jomfru

Jungfrau

παρθένος

virgen vírgen

neitsytneitseellinen

vierge pucelle

djevica

szûz

jómfrú; hrein mey; hreinn sveinn

Vergine intatto la Vergine nuovo di fabbrica

処女

처녀

virgo

mergelėmergiškasmergystė

jaunava

maagd maagdelijk

jomfru

dziewicadziewiczy

virgem

девственница девственный целка Дева девственник

panna

oskuld

หญิงพรหมจารี

bakire

trinh nữ

处女

virgin

[ˈvɜːdʒɪn]

A. N (lit) → virgen mf
to be a virgin → ser virgen
the Blessed Virgin → la Santísima Virgen

B. ADJ (fig) [forest, soil etc] → virgen

C. CPD virgin birth N → partenogénesis f inv
the Virgin Isles NPL → las Islas Vírgenes
virgin oil N → aceite m virgen

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virgin

[ˈvɜː^rdʒɪn]

(sexually) → vierge f
to be a virgin → être vierge
She is a virgin → Elle est vierge.
the Blessed Virgin → la Sainte Vierge

(= inexperienced person) → novice mf

adj [snow, forest] → vierge
virgin territory (fig) → terrain m inconnu, territoire m inconnu
to enter virgin territory → entrer en terrain inconnu, entrer en territoire inconnuVirgin Islands npl
the Virgin Islands → les îles fpl Vierges

virgin

n → Jungfrau f; the (Blessed) Virgin (Rel) → die (Heilige) Jungfrau Maria; the Virgin Mary → die Jungfrau Maria; the Black Virgin → die Schwarze Madonna; he’s still a virgin → er ist noch unschuldig; she’s a political virgin → sie ist in der Politik noch unbeleckt

adj girl, woman → jungfräulich, unberührt; (fig) forest, land → unberührt; freshness → rein; snow → jungfräulich, unberührt; virgin olive oil → natives Olivenöl; the Virgin Queen Königin Elisabeth I.; to be virgin territory (for somebody) → Neuland nt → (für jdn) sein

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virgin

[ˈvɜːdʒɪn]

1. n → vergine f
she/he is a virgin → lei/lui è vergine
the Virgin (Mary) → la Beata Vergine

2. adj (fig) (forest, soil) → vergine
virgin snow → neve fresca

virgin

(ˈvəːdʒin) noun

a person, especially a woman, who has had no sexual intercourse. She was still a virgin when she married.

ˈvirginal adjective

of a virgin. Her face had a virginal look.

virˈginity noun

the state of being a virgin.

virgin

→ عَذْرَاء panic jomfru Jungfrau παρθένος virgen, vírgen neitsyt vierge djevica vergine 処女 처녀 maagd jomfru dziewica virgem девственник oskuld หญิงพรหมจารี bakire trinh nữ 处女

vir·gin

n. virgen.

1. sustancia sin contaminación;

2. persona que no ha realizado el acto sexual.

virgin

n virgen mf

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The roulette-ball was not even spinning, and the gamekeeper stood by the roaring, red-hot stove, talking with the young, dark-eyed woman, comely of face and figure, who was known from Juneau to Fort Yukon as the Virgin. Three men sat in at stud-poker, but they played with small chips and without enthusiasm, while there were no onlookers.

Yet the Shovel was practically deserted, and the Virgin, standing by the stove, yawned with uncovered mouth and said to Charley Bates:-

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An instant later, a symphony which had been intended to produce the greatest effect on the arrival of the Virgin, was lacking.

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"My father, I have a feeling that the dear Virgin will come to our help.

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They were girls of fourteen, always clad in the Virgin's colors, blue and white, having been dedicated to the Blessed Virgin at their baptism.

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1-6) Muse, sing of Artemis, sister of the Far-shooter, the virgin who delights in arrows, who was fostered with Apollo.

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There were never many people in the church; Natasha always stood beside Belova in the customary place before an icon of the Blessed Virgin, let into the screen before the choir on the left side, and a feeling, new to her, of humility before something great and incomprehensible, seized her when at that unusual morning hour, gazing at the dark face of the Virgin illuminated by the candles burning before it and by the morning light falling from the window, she listened to the words of the service which she tried to follow with understanding.

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They have, however, preserved the belief of our principal mysteries; they celebrate with a great deal of piety the passion of our Lord; they reverence the cross; they pay a great devotion to the Blessed Virgin, the angels, and the saints; they observe the festivals, and pay a strict regard to the Sunday.

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Good job you wasn't picked up a month later than you was, or we'd never ha' had you dressed in shape fer the Old Virgin."

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The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognised it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.

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Men who had seen the infant Saviour in the Virgin's arms have stood upon it, maybe.

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For in the flaxen lilies' shade It like a bank of lilies laid; Upon the roses it would feed Until its lips even seemed to bleed, And then to me 'twould boldly trip, And print those roses on my lip, But all its chief delight was still With roses thus itself to fill, And its pure virgin limbs to fold In whitest sheets of lilies cold.