Alex vs Virgin - What's the difference?

As proper nouns the difference between alex and virgin

is that alex is while virgin is mary, the mother of jesus.

alex

English

Proper noun

(es)

* 2006 (Kate Atkinson), One Good Turn (Black Swan(2007), ISBN 9780552772440), page 81:

*:Martin was pretty dull as names went but 'Alex' Blake' had a certain dash to it. His publishers hadn't considered Martin's own name to be 'punchy' enough. The pseudonym ' Alex Blake was chosen after much deliberation, most of which excluded Martin. 'A strong, no-nonsense sort of name', his editor said, 'to compensate'. For what, she didn't say.

, short form of Alexandra or the female name Alexis, or a spelling variant of Alix.

* 2008 , The Northern Clemency (Harpercollins, ISBN 9780007174799), page 588:

'I had a Christmas card from someone calling herself Alex the year before last,' Daniel said. 'I couldn't think who it was.'

'Oh, yes, she's changed again,' Alice said. 'I never got used to Alexandra, either. It never occurred to me that Sandra was short for Alexandra - anyway, she's Sandra on her birth certificate.'

Anagrams

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virgin

English

(wikipedia virgin)

Noun

(en noun)

A person who has never had sexual intercourse, or sometimes, one who has never engaged in any sexual activity at all.

(informal) One who has never used or experienced a specified thing.

I've never eaten tofu before – you could say I'm a tofu virgin .

Any of several species of gossamer-winged butterflies of the family Lycaenidae.

A female insect producing eggs from which young are hatched, though there has been no fecundation by a male; a parthenogenetic insect.

Synonyms

* (person who has never had sexual intercourse) maiden (dated; used of a woman only''), unicorn bait (qualifier), virgo intacta (''medical term; used of a woman only ), vestal

Adjective

(-)

In a state of virginity; chaste, not having had sexual intercourse.

* (and other bibliographic particulars) Milton

Innocence and virgin modesty / That would be wooed, and unsought be won.

* 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 .

Of a physical object, untouched.

* (and other bibliographic particulars) Shakespeare

the white cold virgin snow upon my heart

Not yet cultivated, explored, or exploited by humans or humans of certain civilizations.

virgin''' prairie'', ''a '''virgin ecosystem'', ''virgin forest

The virgin lands of the Americas were awaiting the Europeans.

Of olive oil, obtained by mechanical means, so that the oil is not altered.

Of mixed drinks, not containing alcohol.

a virgin daiquiri

Synonyms

* (of a physical object) brand new, pristine, unspoilt, untouched

Derived terms

* extra virgin * virginal * virgin birth, Virgin Birth * virginity * Virgin Islands * Virgin Mary

Anagrams

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