virgin

noun

1. 1

   A person who has never had sexual intercourse, or (uncommonly) an animal that has never mated.

   On the other hand, the daughter of a clergyman repeatedly performed fellatio instead of genital intercourse so that she could remain a virgin.

   Could I convert virgins to nymphomania? Masturbators to rakehood? Faithful wives to adulteresses? Seducers to ascetics? Very doubtful. But possible.

   As the years went on she became extraordinarily effective at fellatio but, despite the fact that she was Mrs James Baylor, age 32, she was still a virgin.

   among students we studied , 60 % of the virgin females had had oral sex experience

2. 2

   A person who has never engaged in any sexual activity at all.

3. 3

   Someone vowed to virginity (usually a woman and often a consecrated virgin), or someone who died in defense of their virginity; (especially) one venerated as a saint.

   In its list of saints, the Catholic Church classifies St. Agnes, St. Maria Goretti, and St. Thérèse of Lisieux as virgins.

   This was the relation of the order of virgins to the Church from the latter part of the fourth to the beginning of the seventh century. The modern “sister” had no exact prototype in the Church of the first seven centuries.

   The list of saints' days and festivals includes a number of the Romish holidays, properly so called, viz.: Lucian, priest and martyr, Jan. 8 ; Hilary, bishop and confessor, Jan. 13 ; Prisca, virgin and martyr, Jan. 18 ; Fabian, bishop and martyr, Jan. 20 ; Agnes, virgin and martyr, Jan. 21 […]

   It is evident that those from the priesthood are chiefly taken from the order of virgins, or if not from virgins, at least from monks; or if not from the order of monks, then they are wont to be made priests who keep themselves from their wives […].

4. 4

   informalOne who has never used or experienced a specified thing.

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

5. 5

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

6. 6

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

adjective

1. 1

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

   Innocence and virgin Modestie […] / That would be woo’d, and not 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.

   From their embraces was born the handsome Actaeon, a naive boy, who had less excuse than other men, given that he was her son, for believing her to be a virgin. It's true that he was even more virgin than his mother.

   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.

2. 2

   Of a physical object, untouched.

   The white cold virgin snow upon my heart / Abates the ardour of my liver.

   There is something about virgin sand which arouses all the worst instincts of the detective-story writer. One feels an irresisitible impulse to go and make footprints all over it.

3. 3

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

   virgin prairie

   virgin ecosystem

   virgin forest

   virgin clay

4. 4

   Inexperienced.

   The woman shook dangerously, an obvious virgin gunhandler.

5. 5

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

   Wondering how some oil is somehow more virgin than regular virgin olive oil can be a real head-scratcher.

6. 6

   Of mixed drinks, not containing alcohol.

   a virgin daiquiri

Forms

plural

virgins

comparative

more virgin

superlative

most virgin