Maiden vs Mature - What's the difference?
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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.
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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
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Of a fortress, never having been captured or violated.
Fully developed; grown up in terms of physical appearance, behaviour or thinking; ripe.
Profound; careful.
(obsolete) Come to, or in a state of, completed suppuration.
To become mature; to ripen.
To gain experience or wisdom with age.
(finance) To reach the date when payment is due
As nouns the difference between maiden and mature
is that maiden is morning while mature is masts (of a ship).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.
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Synonyms
* (l)Anagrams
* English adjectives ending in -en ----mature
English
Adjective
(en-adj)- She is quite mature for her age.
- The headmaster decided to expel the boy after a mature consideration.
