virgin

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English

Etymology

From Middle English virgine, from Old French virgine, from Latin virginem, accusative of virgō. Doublet of Virgo. Displaced native Old English fǣmne.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈvɜːd͡ʒɪn/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈvɝd͡ʒɪn/
• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)dʒɪn

Noun

virgin (plural virgins)

1. A person who has never had sexual intercourse, or an animal that has never mated.

   Synonyms: (dated; more commonly used for women) maiden, (slang, jocular) unicorn bait, (medical term; used for women only) virgo intacta, vestal

   • 1970 Marriage in Life and Literature page 169

     On the other hand, the daughter of a clergyman repeatedly performed fellatio instead of genital intercourse so that she could remain a virgin.

   • 1987 Psychology and Personal Growthpage 208

     among students we studied , 60 % of the virgin females had had oral sex experience

   • 1988 page 186

     A girl is a virgin until she experience penis-inside-vagina intercourse

   • 1993 Santa Clara Review page 102

     I was a virgin. In my senior year of high school, I had experienced one inchoate handjob

   • 2004 The Handbook of Sexuality in Close Relationships page 67

     adolescents often define themselves as still a virgin while experimenting with oral sex

   • 2012 Saying Yes! to Saying No page 21

     A Pike High School teen says most teens “think if you have oral sex you are still a virgin.

   • 2015 In Some Other World, Maybe: A Novel - Page 28

     she's never actually told the girls she's still a virgin—that the pinnacle of her sexual experience was giving a pretty cruddy handjob to Jared Wells

   • 2020 Page 1139

     It's really a miracle I'm still a virgin at twenty-one in the first place. I guess my talent at blowjobs and handjobs paid off.

2. A person who has never engaged in any sexual activity at all. [from mid-14th c.]
3. (Catholicism, Orthodoxy or historical) Someone vowed to virginity (usually a woman and often a consecrated virgin), or someone who died in defense of their virginity; (especially) one venerated as a saint. [from early 13th c.]
4. (informal) One who has never used or experienced a specified thing.

5. Any of several species of gossamer-winged butterflies of the family Lycaenidae.
6. (entomology) A female insect producing eggs from which young are hatched, though there has been no fecundation by a male; a parthenogenetic insect.

Translations

Adjective

virgin (comparative more virgin, superlative most virgin)

1. (usually not comparable) In a state of virginity; chaste, not having had sexual intercourse.
2. Of a physical object, untouched.

   Synonyms: brand new, pristine, unspoilt, untouched
3. Not yet cultivated, explored, or exploited by humans or humans of certain civilizations.

   virgin clay ― clay that has never been fired
4. Inexperienced.
5. Of olive oil, obtained by mechanical means, so that the oil is not altered.
6. (usually not comparable) Of mixed drinks, not containing alcohol.

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Anagrams

• Girvin, Irving, Virnig, riving, viring

Romanian

Alternative forms

• vergin — popular, dated

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin virgō, virginem. Doublet of vergură.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /virˈd͡ʒin/

Adjective

virgin m or n (feminine singular virgină, masculine plural virgini, feminine and neuter plural virgine)

1. virgin, that which has not had sexual intercourse, chaste, maiden, virginal
2. untouched, clean, stainless, immaculate, pure

Declension

Synonyms

• cast, fecioară, fecioresc, feciorelnic, vergur, pur, curat, neatins

Derived terms

• virgină
• virginitate