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What does maiden mean?

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Noun
  1. (literary) A girl or an unmarried young woman.
  2. A female virgin.
  3. A maidservant.
  4. (now rare) An unmarried woman, especially an older woman.
  5. (horse racing) A racehorse without any victory ('virgin record').
  6. (historical) A Scottish counterpart of the guillotine.
  7. (cricket) A maiden over.
  8. (obsolete) A machine for washing linen.
  9. (Wicca) Alternative form of Maiden
Adjective
  1. Virgin.
  2. (of a female, human or animal) Without offspring.
  3. Like or befitting a (young, unmarried) maiden.
  4. (figuratively) Being a first occurrence or event.
  5. (cricket) Being an over in which no runs are scored.
  6. Fresh; innocent; unpolluted; pure; hitherto unused.
  7. (of a fortress) Never having been captured or violated.
  8. (of a tree) Grown from seed and never pruned
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