Definitions for Virgin

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Virgin vir·gin

Spelling: [vur-jin]

IPA: /ˈvɜr dʒɪn/

Virgin is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 47 anagrams from letters in Virgin (giinrv).

Definitions for Virgin

noun

1. a person who has never had sexual intercourse.
2. an unmarried girl or woman.
3. Ecclesiastical. an unmarried, religious woman, especially a saint.
4. the Virgin, Mary, the mother of Christ.
5. Informal. any person who is uninitiated, uninformed, or the like:
6. a female animal that has never copulated.
7. an unfertilized insect.
8. (initial capital letter) Astronomy, Astrology. the constellation or sign of Virgo.

adjective

1. being a virgin:
2. of, relating to, or characteristic of a virgin:
3. pure; unsullied; undefiled:
4. first:
5. without admixture, alloy, or modification:
6. not previously exploited, cultivated, tapped, or used:
7. without experience of; not previously exposed to:
8. Informal. being a mixed drink resembling a specific cocktail but made without any alcoholic ingredient:
9. Zoology. not fertilized.
10. (of a metal) made directly from ore by smelting, rather than from scrap.
11. noting the oil obtained, as from olives, by the first pressing without the application of heat.

Origin of Virgin

1150-1200; Middle English virgine Anglo-French, Old French Latin virgin-, stem of virgō maiden, virgin

Examples for Virgin

And Pope Alexander VI had the painter Pinturicchio disguise his mistress as the virgin Mary in one fresco.

The virgin birth is mentioned in the...what...gasp...Koran?!

It has now been revealed that Princess Beatrice will not be among those who will ultimately voyage with virgin Galactic.

Afterwards came the canticle: "In thy help, virgin, do I put my trust."

She had beheld the virgin, she was the chosen one, the martyr.

Her girlhood had in it a certain dignity as of a virgin priestess or sibyl.

Are we going to see you on a virgin Galactic or SpaceX flight in the future?

His voice, full of tenderness and strength, was said to be appreciated by the virgin.

Her long-term boyfriend Dave Clark is head of ‘astronaut relations’ for virgin Galactic.

Since he had been set down there his eyes had not strayed from the statue of the virgin.