virgin
/ˈvɜːd͡ʒɪn/
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.35 in modern English
Meaning
noun
A person who has never had sexual intercourse, or (uncommonly) an animal that has never mated.
noun
A person who has never engaged in any sexual activity at all.
noun
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.
noun
Any of several species of gossamer-winged butterflies of the family Lycaenidae.
noun
A female insect producing eggs from which young are hatched, though there has been no fecundation by a male; a parthenogenetic insect.
adj
In a state of virginity; chaste, not having had sexual intercourse.
adj
Of a physical object, untouched.
Example Sentences
- "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 ."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: virgine, virginem
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈvɜːd͡ʒɪn/
- British English: /ˈvɜːd͡ʒɪn/