Maiden vs Lady - What's the difference?
maiden | lady |
A girl or an unmarried young woman.
A female virgin.
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A man with no experience of sex, especially because of deliberate abstention.
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A maidservant.
An unmarried woman, especially an older woman.
A racehorse without any victory ('virgin record').
(label) A Scottish counterpart of the guillotine.
:(Wharton)
(label) A maiden over.
(label) A machine for washing linen.
(label)
Virgin.
* Thackeray
Without offspring.
Like or befitting a (young, unmarried) maiden.
* Shakespeare
(figuratively) Being a first occurrence or event.
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(cricket) Being an over in which no runs are scored.
Fresh; innocent; unpolluted; pure; hitherto unused.
* Shakespeare
* Shakespeare
Of a fortress, never having been captured or violated.
(historical) The mistress of a household.
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A woman of breeding or higher class, a woman of authority.
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* Lowell
* Shakespeare
(polite, or, used by children) A woman: an adult female human.
(in the plural)
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(slang)
Toilets intended for use by women.
(familiar) A wife or girlfriend; a sweetheart.
* (William Shakespeare), (Romeo and Juliet)
A woman to whom the particular homage of a knight was paid; a woman to whom one is devoted or bound.
* Waller
(slang) A queen (the playing card).
(dated, attributive, with a professional title) Who is a woman.
(Wicca) .
The triturating apparatus in the stomach of a lobster, consisting of calcareous plates; so called from a fancied resemblance to a seated female figure.
In historical terms the difference between maiden and lady
is that maiden is a Scottish counterpart of the guillotine while lady is The mistress of a household.In wicca terms the difference between maiden and lady
is that maiden is one of the triune goddesses of the Lady in Wicca alongside the Crone and Mother representing a girl or a young woman while lady is a high priestess.As nouns the difference between maiden and lady
is that maiden is a girl or an unmarried young woman while lady is The mistress of a household.As an adjective maiden
is virgin.As a proper noun Lady is
the title for the (primary) female deity in female-centered religions.maiden
English
Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* maidenhair * maidenhead * maidenhood * maidenly, maidenliness * maiden flight * maiden voyage * maiden name * maiden of honor * iron maidenSynonyms
* bacheloretteAdjective
(-)- a surprising old maiden lady
- Have you no modesty, no maiden shame?
- The Titanic sank on its maiden voyage .
- After Edmund Burke's maiden speech, William Pitt the Elder said Burke had "spoken in such a manner as to stop the mouths of all Europe" and that the Commons should congratulate itself on acquiring such a member.
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- maiden flowers
- Full bravely hast thou fleshed / Thy maiden sword.
- (Macaulay)
Synonyms
* (l)Anagrams
* English adjectives ending in -en ----lady
English
Noun
(wikipedia lady) (ladies)citation, passage=‘[…] I remember a lady coming to inspect St. Mary's Home where I was brought up and seeing us all in our lovely Elizabethan uniforms we were so proud of, and bursting into tears all over us because “it was wicked to dress us like charity children”. […]’.}}
- lord or lady of high degree
- Of all these bounds, even from this line to this, / We make thee lady .
- But soft, what light through yonder window breaks...? It is my lady , O it is my love!
- (Goldsmith)
- The soldier here his wasted store supplies, / And takes new valour from his lady's eyes.
Derived terms
* bag lady * charlady * dragon lady * the First Lady * forelady * gray lady * ladies and gentlemen * lady's bedstraw * lady's eardrop * lady's laces * lady's man * lady's mantle * lady's slipper * lady's thistle * lady's thumb * lady abbess * lady beetle * lady bird/lady-bird/ladybird * Lady Bountifel * lady bug/lady-bug/ladybug * Lady Campbell * lady chapel * ladyclock * lady crab * Lady Day * lady fern/lady-fern * lady's finger * ladyfinger * lady friend * Lady Godiva * lady-in-waiting * lady killer, lady-killer, ladykiller * ladylike * ladylove * Lady Macbeth strategy * Lady McLeod * lady of leisure * lady of pleasure * lady of the house * lady of the night * lady or tiger * ladyship * lady smock * lady who lunches * landlady * leading lady * lollipop lady * lunch lady/lunch-lady/lunchlady * m'lady/malady/milady * naked lady * no way to treat a lady * old lady * one fat lady * Our Lady * painted lady * Pink Lady/pink lady * saleslady * Tupperware lady * two fat ladies * saleslady * white lady * young lady * (lady)References
* Weisenberg, Michael (2000)The Official Dictionary of Poker. MGI/Mike Caro University. ISBN 978-1880069523