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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
virgin
I.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
extra virgin
virgin birth
virgin forest (=forest that has not been used or changed by people)
▪ Here virgin forest remains that is at least a thousand years old.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the virgin birth
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ At 27 he was still a virgin and very shy about it.
▪ Some men will not marry a woman who is no longer a virgin.
▪ This is the first model computer virgins can operate as soon as it lands on their desks.
▪ Women in some countries are expected to keep their virginity until marriage - the same rule doesn't apply to men.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ After offering a prayer, the virgin expired.
▪ Here Melangell founded a community of virgins and lived a further thirty seven years in the valley.
▪ Sentences for rape are eased if the victim is not a virgin.
▪ She led me to the double rainbow where virgins climb to heaven and told me to climb.
▪ She must remain a virgin until marriage and must never take any lovers other than her husband.
▪ The demeanour of a virgin can be converted into that of a coquette.
▪ The discovery that Judy was a virgin, and intended to remain so for some time longer, rattled me considerably.
▪ When Jane Eyre finally married Mr Rochester she was still, after all, a virgin.
II.adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
birth
▪ If we are truthful we may admit that we find the ideas of the virgin birth or the resurrection incredulous.
▪ In the absence of divine intervention, virgin birth for mammals is not an option.
▪ It can not be proved that the virgin birth did not happen.
▪ There is no knowledge of the idea of the virgin birth in the Church before the Gospels were written.
▪ Again the virgin birth, in view of what we now know of human reproduction, has become highly suspect for people.
▪ The angel's answer is part of the foundation of the teaching about the virgin birth.
forest
▪ Some scientists believe that it can take up to a thousand years for virgin forest to be truly established.
▪ Cloud shadows scudded across immeasurable stands of virgin forests.
▪ Another road runs south, through the oilfields, and is constantly being extended into virgin forest.
▪ The trees here were all larger and growing much more vigorously than in the virgin forest above.
▪ In response to the beard-shaving incident the Dwarfs chopped down entire virgin forests to spite the Elves.
land
▪ After an initial few hundred feet across virgin land the railway will join the old trackbed of the long-disused Newbury Railway.
▪ The whole of the transcendent is virgin land whereas the mundane is filled with the debris of a lifetime.
snow
▪ Within an hour, Bucharest is buried under a blanket of virgin snow.
▪ In low range, it walks with authority across a field covered by a couple of feet of packed virgin snow.
territory
▪ As far as Labour is concerned, this is virgin territory.
▪ Helena some years earlier to map the stars of the southern hemisphere-virtually virgin territory on the landscape of the night.
▪ Working on what in effect was virgin territory for customs officers our crews produced fantastic results in the earlier days.
▪ I mean, this was still virgin territory, there were no tube lines running to this part of the frontier.
▪ Of course, our rummage crews were working on more or less virgin territory, where no customs rummage crew had been before.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a virgin bride
▪ a virgin piña colada
▪ He was eager to try out his jokes on a virgin audience.
▪ Here we find immense virgin forests, similar to those of the Amazon and Indonesia.
▪ In front of them were 500 miles of virgin plains almost uninhabited by white people.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ General Booth's Salvationist doctrine was a notable example, recommending mass emigration from the city slums to virgin colonial territories.
▪ It was in virgin wilderness up north where septic tanks are forbidden.
▪ Like ours, it lies ahead of her like a wilderness just before the first explorer sets foot on the virgin sand.
▪ No more virgin coastal cliff will be sprinkled with bungalows.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Virgin

Virgin \Vir"gin\, v. i. To act the virgin; to be or keep chaste; -- followed by it. See It, 5. [Obs.] ``My true lip hath virgined it e'er since [that kiss].''
--Shak.

Virgin

Virgin \Vir"gin\, a.

  1. Being a virgin; chaste; of or pertaining to a virgin; becoming a virgin; maidenly; modest; indicating modesty; as, a virgin blush. ``Virgin shame.''
    --Cowley.

    Innocence and virgin modesty . . . That would be wooed, and unsought be won.
    --Milton.

  2. Pure; undefiled; unmixed; fresh; new; as, virgin soil; virgin gold. ``Virgin Dutch.''
    --G. W. Cable.

    The white cold virgin snow upon my heart.
    --Shak.

    A few ounces of mutton, with a little virgin oil.
    --Landor.

  3. Not yet pregnant; impregnant.
    --Milton.

Virgin

Virgin \Vir"gin\, n. [L. virgo, -inis: cf. OF. virgine, virgene, virge, vierge, F. vierge.]

  1. A woman who has had no carnal knowledge of man; a maid.

  2. A person of the male sex who has not known sexual indulgence. [Archaic]
    --Wyclif.

    These are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins.
    --Rev. xiv. 4.

    He his flesh hath overcome; He was a virgin, as he said.
    --Gower.

  3. (Astron.) See Virgo.

  4. (Zo["o]l.) Any one of several species of gossamer-winged butterflies of the family Lyc[ae]nid[ae].

  5. (Zo["o]l.) A female insect producing eggs from which young are hatched, though there has been no fecundation by a male; a parthenogenetic insect.

    The Virgin, or The Blessed Virgin, the Virgin Mary, the Mother of Jesus Christ.

    Virgin's bower (Bot.), a name given to several climbing plants of the genus Clematis, as Clematis Vitalba of Europe, and Clematis Virginiana of North America.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
virgin

c.1200, "unmarried or chaste woman noted for religious piety and having a position of reverence in the Church," from Anglo-French and Old French virgine "virgin; Virgin Mary," from Latin virginem (nominative virgo) "maiden, unwedded girl or woman," also an adj., "fresh, unused," probably related to virga "young shoot." For sense evolution, compare Greek talis "a marriageable girl," cognate with Latin talea "rod, stick, bar."\n

\nMeaning "young woman in a state of inviolate chastity" is recorded from c.1300. Also applied since early 14c. to a chaste man. Meaning "naive or inexperienced person" is attested from 1953. The adjective is recorded from 1550s in the literal sense; figurative sense of "pure, untainted" is attested from c.1300. The Virgin Islands were named (in Spanish) by Columbus for St. Ursula and her 11,000 martyred virgin companions.\n

Wiktionary
virgin

a. 1 In a state of virginity; chaste, not having had sexual intercourse. 2 Of a physical object, untouched. 3 Not yet cultivated, explored, or exploited by humans or humans of certain civilizations. 4 Of olive oil, obtained by mechanical means, so that the oil is not altered. 5 Of mixed drinks, not containing alcohol. n. 1 A person who has never had sexual intercourse, or sometimes, one who has never engaged in any sexual activity at all. 2 (context informal English) One who has never used or experienced a specified thing. 3 Any of several species of gossamer-winged butterflies of the family Lycaenidae. 4 A female insect producing eggs from which young are hatched, though there has been no fecundation by a male; a parthenogenetic insect.

WordNet
virgin
  1. adj. being used or worked for the first time; "virgin wool"

  2. in a state of sexual virginity; "pure and vestal modesty"; "a spinster or virgin lady"; "men have decreed that their women must be pure and virginal" [syn: pure, vestal, virginal, virtuous]

virgin
  1. n. a person who has never had sex

  2. (astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Virgo [syn: Virgo]

  3. the sixth sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about August 23 to September 22 [syn: Virgo, Virgo the Virgin]

Gazetteer
Virgin, UT -- U.S. town in Utah
Population (2000): 394
Housing Units (2000): 170
Land area (2000): 11.918820 sq. miles (30.869601 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 11.918820 sq. miles (30.869601 sq. km)
FIPS code: 80530
Located within: Utah (UT), FIPS 49
Location: 37.201620 N, 113.189617 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
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Wikipedia
Virgin (disambiguation)

A virgin is a person who has not engaged in sexual intercourse.

Virgin may also refer to:

Virgin (band)

Virgin was a Polish pop rock band created in 2000 that officially disbanded in 2007. Its lead singer was Dorota Rabczewska.

Virgin (Virgin album)

Virgin is first album released by a Polish rock band Virgin.

Virgin (title)

The title Virgin is an honorific that the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Roman Catholic Church bestow to female saints and blesseds who were consecrated virgins, nuns or unmarried women known for a life in chastity. Moreover, being referred to as Virgin can especially mean being a member of the Ordo Virginum (Order of Virgins), which applies to the consecrated virgins living in the world or in monastic orders.

Other titles are Abbess, Women religious, Holy Woman, Doctor of the Church, Martyr or some combination of these titles such as "Virgin and Martyr".

Virgin (film)

Virgin is a 2003 American film, directed by Deborah Kampmeier and starring Elisabeth Moss, Robin Wright Penn and Daphne Rubin-Vega.

Virgin (After School album)

Virgin is the first full-length album by South Korean girl group After School. They promoted the album by performing their lead single " Shampoo" along with a tap dance performance of "Let's Step Up". It was released on April 29, 2011 and contains 13 songs (including new recordings of their songs "Because of You" and "When I Fall" and "Bang!"). The group has released three music videos for the album: "Shampoo", "Let's Step Up", and "Play Ur Love".

This was the last set of promotions for member Bekah.

Usage examples of "virgin".

It sounds very much like a home tape and would probably have been on a John and Yoko solo album like Two Virgins had it been recorded a little later.

There was no time to be lost, and I could see that the girl was not a vestal virgin, so I went up to her and told her that the Venetian ambassador was amorous of her, and that I would take her to him if she would receive his visits.

Front, three abreast, the man in the middle dozing, and all dreading the first sight of the Hanging Virgin of Albert because beyond her steeple lay the terrible valley of the Ancre and the hills above the Somme.

Besides the Nun, our female members include a sinister Virgin Huntress who seems to have wreaked mayhem or worse on one of the auberge counselors in order to qualify as a recidivist, and an extremely cautious ex-Meta Lady who is, at the moment at least, content to remain just one of the boys.

Blessed Virgin effected anything in baptism, but as intimating that her intercession may help the person baptized to preserve the baptismal grace, then the sacrament is not rendered void.

I say our baser ore, that at the virgin touch of our philosophical stone blushed into ruddy gold?

Alice spent frantically, plentifully bedewing my finger with her virgin distillation!

Briefly she told Bex how, toward the end, she had worked in Cameroon, as the loggers had worked their way out into the virgin rain forest, and the hunters had followed.

The curate came back and returned me the ring, saying that it could not be pledged until the day after the morrow, in consequence of the Festival of the Holy Virgin.

CHAPTER XXIV--Locarno We were attracted to Locarno by the approaching fetes in honour of the fourth centenary of the apparition of the Virgin Mary to Fra Bartolomeo da Ivrea, who founded the sanctuary in consequence.

Reign of Tarquinius Priscus 16 His early history 16 His removal to Rome 16 Becomes king 16 His wars 16 The Cloacae 16 Circus Maximus 17 Increase of the Senate 17 Increase of the Equites 17 Attus Navius 17 Increase of the Vestal Virgins 17 Early history of Servius Tullius 17 Death of Tarquinius Priscus 18 578-534.

After supper he told me that, as far as the young maiden was concerned, he thought he could recommend his daughter Javotte, as he had consulted his wife, and had found I could rely upon the girl being a virgin.

Besides, I was much surprised at the liberty enjoyed by those sainted virgins, and at the facility with which they could escape out of their walls.

There was a half-sigh floating through his pages for those days of intellectual coxcombry, when ideas come to us affecting the embraces of virgins, and swear to us they are ours alone, and no one else have they ever visited: and we believe them.

The little Dazie that at evening closes, The virgin Lillie and the Primrose trew.