Meaning of virgin | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Synonym of Virgin Mary (“Mary, mother of Jesus”).
2. A representation (picture, statue etc.) of Virgin Mary.
3. A person who has never had sexual intercourse, or (uncommonly) an animal that has never mated.
4. The constellation and zodiacal sign Virgo.
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6. See Virgo.
7. A person who has never engaged in any sexual activity at all.
8. A surname.
   rare
9. A pure, uncorrupted person:angel, innocent, lamb.
10. 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.
11. A tributary of the Colorado River in the states of Utah, Nevada, and Arizona in the United States.
12. Morally beyond reproach, especially in sexual conduct:chaste, decent, modest, nice, pure, virginal, virtuous.
13. One who has never used or experienced a specified thing.
    informal
14. A town in Washington County, Utah.
15. a person, especially a woman, who has had no sexual intercourse. She was still a virgin when she married. maagd عَذْراء девица virgem panna die Jungfrau jomfru παρθέναvirgen neitsi باکره neitsyt viergeבתול, בתולה कुंवारी djevica szűz perawan jómfrú; hrein mey; hreinn sveinn vergine 処女 처녀 mergelė jaunava dara maagdjomfrudziewica بي بي مريم: پيغله، نه وهل شوى ( باكره )، هغه ښځه چې لاس پرې نه وي لګيدلى virgem vir­gină, fecio­ară девственница panna devica devica jungfru, oskuld หญิงพรหมจารี bakir...
    especially
16. Any of several species of gossamer-winged butterflies of the family Lycaenidae.
17. of a virgin. Her face had a virginal look. onskuldig عُذْري момински virginal panenský jungfräulich jomfruelig παρθενικός virginal neitsilik وابسته به باکره ها؛ عفیف neitseellinen virginal בְּתוּלִי अक्षत, पवित्र djevičanski szűzi seperti perawan eins og á hreinni mey, óspilltur, óspjallaður verginale 処女の 처녀의 mergiškas, mergaitės jaunavīgs masih dara maagdelijkjomfruelig dziewiczy دموسيقې يوه اّله چې په شپاړسمه او اوولسمه پيړۍ كښې استعماليده virginal virginal, feciorelnic девственный panenský...
18. A female insect producing eggs from which young are hatched, though there has been no fecundation by a male; a parthenogenetic insect.
19. the state of being a virgin. maagdelikheid عُذْرِيَّه девственост virgindade panenství die Jungfrau jomfrudom παρθενιάvirginidad neitsilikkus بکارت neitsyys virginitéבתולים कुंआरापन djevičanstvo szüz(i)esség keperawanan mey-/sveindómur verginità 処女性 처녀성 mergystė jaunavība keperawanan maagdelijkheidjomfrudomdziewictwo بكارت، پيغلتوب virgindade vir­ginitate девственность panenstvo devištvo devičanstvo jungfrudom, mödom, oskuld ความบริสุทธิ์ bekâret, kızlık 童貞，貞潔 незайманість, невинність دوشيزگي...
20. A person who has not experienced sexual intercourse.
21. Virgin The Virgin Mary.
22. Zoology An animal that has not mated or has not been fertilized.
    Zoology
23. A person who is inexperienced in a given activity or field: "all these [factors] kept me a gun virgin well into midlife" (Michael DiLeo).

Equivalents

Examples

“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”

“A girl is a virgin until she experience penis-inside-vagina intercourse”

“26 percent of virgin females have performed fellatio while 87 percent of nonvirgins have done so .”

“I was a virgin. In my senior year of high school, I had experienced one inchoate handjob”

“adolescents often define themselves as still a virgin while experimenting with oral sex”

“middle-school girls sometimes look at oral sex as an absolute bargain - you don't get pregnant, they think you don't get diseases, you're still a virgin and you're in control”

“Shepard: Are you telling me you're a virgin? Liara: "Virgin" does not have the same connotation in my culture as in yours. But is is true I have never done this before.”

“A Pike High School teen says most teens “think if you have oral sex you are still a virgin.”

“she's never actually told the girls she's still a virgin—that the pinnacle of her sexual experience was giving a pretty cruddy handjob to Jared Wells”

“It's really a miracle I'm still a virgin at twenty-one in the first place. I guess my talent at blowjobs and handjobs paid off.”

“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 […].”

“It ought to have become apparent, however, that the well-established order of widows was the model for the newly developing order of virgins. Both orders earned their legitimization from the way of life adopted by their members […]”

“According to Jerome's account, a young man, who desired to seduce a consecrated virgin of the church, at first attempted to do so through the standard means of seduction: namely, “with touching, jokes, nods, whistles, and the rest” (Vit. Hil. 21.2670–75).”

“Grant, O Lord, I beseech thee, that the Virgin and Martyr, St. Philomena, may solicit thy mercy for us. I implore her intercession, through the merits of her chastity, and by the glory that she gave to thy power, in dying for thee.”

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

“'Behold,' said he, showing the picture of the Virgin, 'Behold her who protects us. Fear nothing : we shall reach Chang-hai, and we shall see our bishop.' He spoke truth : shortly they descried a Chinese junk. The master of it, on the promise of a good round sum, undertook to guide them to their destination.”

“In Autumpne, whan the sonne in vyrgyne / By radyante hete enryped hath our corne […]”

“When the bright Virgin gives the beauteous Days, / And Libra weighs in equal Scales the Year […].”

“The lion is coming, leaping forth, his foot over the head of the serpent Hydra. The virgin holds in one hand a palm-branch, in the other an ear of corn.”

“At the moment then when Sirius, the star from the East, by coming to the Meridian at midnight signalled the Sun's new birth, the Virgin was seen just rising on the Eastern sky - the horizon line passing through her centre.”

“While there are plenty of men among our constellations, there are only three women; but the Virgin makes up for this imbalance by being the second largest constellation and embodying the oldest of deities - the Earth Mother.”

“Of the forty-five floats presenting Virgins alone, two are preeminent and the subject of such veneration that even the most casual observer must reflect on the fact that Holy Week, which commemorates Christ's passion and death, has become in Spain a celebration in which he plays a secondary role, with his mother becoming the central figure.”

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