Madonna vs Virgin - What's the difference?
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The Virgin Mary, the mother of Jesus.
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* 1835 , Vol. XI, page 652 (June 1835):
* 2005 Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner, Freakonomics , Allen Lane (2005), ISBN 0713998067, page 184:
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.
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.
In a state of virginity; chaste, not having had sexual intercourse.
* (and other bibliographic particulars) Milton
* 1913 , (DH Lawrence), Sons and Lovers , Penguin 2006, p. 294:
* 2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, p. 314:
Of a physical object, untouched.
* (and other bibliographic particulars) Shakespeare
Not yet cultivated, explored, or exploited by humans or humans of certain civilizations.
Of olive oil, obtained by mechanical means, so that the oil is not altered.
Of mixed drinks, not containing alcohol.
As proper nouns the difference between madonna and virgin
is that madonna is the Virgin Mary, the mother of Jesus while Virgin is mary, the mother of Jesus.As nouns the difference between madonna and virgin
is that madonna is a one-footed lien to tail trick, where the front foot is taken off and kicked out straight down behind the board while virgin is a person who has never had sexual intercourse, or sometimes, one who has never engaged in any sexual activity at all.As an adjective virgin is
in a state of virginity; chaste, not having had sexual intercourse.madonna
English
Proper noun
(en proper noun)- We feel bound to add, however, that it is not very likely, in the usual chances of events, that such names as Alaric Attila Watts should have met in matrimony with those of Zillah Madonna Wiffen; and an unkind world may suggest a mystification somewhere.
- But celebrities actually have a weak effect on baby names. As of 2000, the pop star Madonna had sold 130 million records worldwide but hadn't generated even the ten copycat namings?in California, no less?required to make the master index of four thousand names from which the sprawling list of girls' names on page 227 was drawn.
See also
* (wikipedia "Madonna") * Madonna lily ----virgin
English
(wikipedia virgin)Noun
(en noun)- I've never eaten tofu before – you could say I'm a tofu virgin .
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 ), vestalAdjective
(-)- Innocence and virgin modesty / That would be wooed, and unsought be won.
- 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.
- 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 .
- the white cold virgin snow upon my heart
- virgin''' prairie'', ''a '''virgin ecosystem'', ''virgin forest
- The virgin lands of the Americas were awaiting the Europeans.
- a virgin daiquiri
