Maiden vs Original - What's the difference?
maiden | original | Synonyms |
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
* Shakespeare
Of a fortress, never having been captured or violated.
(label) Relating to the origin or beginning; preceding all others.
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, title= (label) First in a series or copies/versions.
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, chapter=1 (label) Newly created.
(label) Fresh, different.
(label) Pioneering.
(label) Having as its origin.
An object or other creation (e.g. narrative work) from which all later copies and variations are derived
A person with a unique and interesting personality and/or creative talent
(archaic) An eccentric
Maiden is a synonym of original.
As nouns the difference between maiden and original
is that maiden is morning while original is original.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.
citation, page= , passage=Venezuelan Pastor Maldonado took his maiden victory and Williams's first since 2004 in a strategic battle with Ferrari's Fernando Alonso.}}
- maiden flowers
- Full bravely hast thou fleshed / Thy maiden sword.
- (Macaulay)
Synonyms
* (l)Anagrams
* English adjectives ending in -en ----original
English
Adjective
(en adjective)The Three Corpse Trick, chapter=5 , passage=The hovel stood in the centre of what had once been a vegetable garden, but was now a patch of rank weeds. Surrounding this, almost like a zareba, was an irregular ring of gorse and brambles, an unclaimed vestige of the original common.}}
citation, passage=The original family who had begun to build a palace to rival Nonesuch had died out before they had put up little more than the gateway, […].}}
Synonyms
* (first in series ) initial * autograph * prototypeAntonyms
* copy * derivative * reproduction * simileDerived terms
* originally * original sinNoun
(en noun)- This manuscript is the original
- You’re an original