virgin

Definition of virgin in English English dictionary: Mary, the mother of Jesus; The common name for the constellation Virgo and another name for the star sign Virgo; Of mixed drinks, not containing alcohol
a virgin daiquiri.; In a state of virginity; chaste, not having had sexual intercourse
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.; A person who has never had sexual intercourse, or sometimes, one who has never engaged in any sexual activity at all
I've always wanted to sleep with a virgin but I don't see it happening.; Of olive oil, obtained by mechanical means, so that the oil is not altered; Preceded by a noun, a person who has never used or experienced what is denoted by the noun
I've never used Google before – you could say I'm a Google virgin.; Of a physical object, untouched
virgin forest.; {a} maidenly, untouched, pure, unmingled; {v} to play the virgin, to be very coy; {n} a maind unacquainted with man, a sign; {i} Virgo, sixth zodiacal sign represented by a virgin (Astrology); Virgin Mary, mother of Jesus; (astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Virgo; A woman who has had no carnal knowledge of man; a maid; Being a virgin; chaste; of or pertaining to a virgin; becoming a virgin; maidenly; modest; indicating modesty; as, a virgin blush; adj Unused; pristine; in a known initial state "Let's bring up a virgin system and see if it crashes again " (Esp useful after contracting a {virus} through {SEX} ) Also, by extension, buffers and the like within a program that have not yet been used; {s} not having had sexual intercourse; innocent, pure, chaste; unsullied, untouched; new; Not yet pregnant; impregnant; A woman who is not controlled by a man, remaining unshackled The term often given to the sacred priestesses of old who would never marry; A female insect producing eggs from which young are hatched, though there has been no fecundation by a male; a parthenogenetic insect; Pure; undefiled; unmixed; fresh; new; as, virgin soil; virgin gold; To act the virgin; to be or keep chaste; followed by it; Of a person, usually a woman, in a state of virginity; A person of the male sex who has not known sexual indulgence; a person who has never had sex being used or worked for the first time; "virgin wool; a person who has never had sex; See It, 5; Any one of several species of gossamer-winged butterflies of the family Lycænidæ; You can use virgin to describe someone who has never done or used a particular thing before. Until he appeared in `In the Line of Fire' Malkovich had been an action-movie virgin; A virgin is someone who has never had sex. I was a virgin until I was thirty years old; 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"; If you say that a situation is virgin territory, you mean that you have no experience of it and it is completely new for you; A descriptive term applied to products produced directly from crude to distinguish them from similar products from cracking processes; {i} one who has not had sexual intercourse; woman who has taken a vow of chastity for religious reasons; You use virgin to describe something such as land that has never been used or spoiled. Within 40 years there will be no virgin forest left; being used or worked for the first time; "virgin wool"; Someone who is new to hashing Like virginity, this state once lost, can never be regained Of course, it could also refer to the real thing; the sixth sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about August 23 to September 22
Virgin Islander: Someone from the Virgin Islands
Virgin Islands: An archipelago in the Caribbean Sea, comprised of the British Virgin Islands and the United States Virgin Islands
Virgin Mary: Term used by some Christian denominations to refer to the mother of Christ
Virgin Mary: A drink made with tomato juice and spices, resembling a Bloody Mary, but without alcohol
Virgin Marys: plural form of Virgin Mary
Virgin's lavender: A vernacular name for the flowering herb Achillea
virgin birth: A birth (or vegetal reproduction) after spontaneous, unfertilized gamete-development in a virginal mother, parthenogenesis
virgin birth: (often capitalized and used absolutely: the Virgin Birth) In Christian theology, the miraculous birth of Christ from the Virgin Mary, as a result of the Immaculate Conception
virgin field: virgin territory
virgin field: an oilfield that has not yet been exploited
virgin fields: plural form of virgin field
virgin fields epidemic: An epidemic with unusually serious consequences resulting from contact of an infectious and/or contagious agent with a population not previously exposed to it
virgin forest: A forest being more or less free from human ecological disturbance
virgin forests: plural form of virgin forest
virgin oil: virgin olive oil
virgin olive oil: An olive oil obtained from the first pressing of the olives
virgin sulfur: Alternative spelling of virgin sulphur
virgin sulphur: Naturally occuring elemental sulfur
virgin territory: Land that has never been explored or developed
virgin territory: By extension, ideas or concepts or activities that have not yet been tried, explored or developed
The company had engineered plenty of products, but manufacturing them was virgin territory.
virgin timber: Timber (lumber) taken from an uncultivated forest
Virgin Birth: The doctrine that Jesus was miraculously begotten by God and born of the Virgin Mary without the agency of a human father. the virgin birth the birth of Jesus, which Christians believe was caused by God, not by sex between a man and a woman. Fundamental doctrine of orthodox Christianity that Jesus had no natural father but was conceived by Mary through the power of the Holy Spirit. Based on the infancy narratives in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke, the doctrine was universally accepted in the Christian church by the 2nd century. It remains a basic article of belief in Roman Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, most Protestant churches, and Islam. A corollary of its dogma is the doctrine of Mary's perpetual virginity, accepted by the Orthodox and Roman Catholic churches and by some Lutheran and Anglican theologians. See also Immaculate Conception
Virgin Islands: the Virgin Islands a group of about 100 small islands in the east Caribbean Sea, some of which are ruled by the US as the US Virgin Islands, and some by the UK, as the British Virgin Islands
Virgin Islands National Park: Conservation area, St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands. Covering 14,696 acres (5,947 hectares), it has steep mountains, white beaches, and coral reefs. Though most of the tree cover was removed for sugarcane cultivation in the 17th-18th century, the land has reverted to forest. Some 100 species of birds and the only native land mammal, the bat, can be found there. It has remains of Arawak Indian villages
Virgin Islands of the U.S: Unincorporated U.S. island territory at the eastern end of the Greater Antilles, northeastern Caribbean Sea. It consists of the islands of Saint Croix, Saint John, and Saint Thomas and about 50 small islets. Area: 136 sq mi (352 sq km). Population, 2002 est.: 123,498. Capital: Charlotte Amalie. About 80% of the population is black or of mixed descent; most of the remainder are Hispanic (mainly Puerto Rican) or recent white immigrants. The people are U.S. citizens and elect a nonvoting representative to the U.S. House of Representatives, but they do not vote in U.S. national elections. Languages: English (official), French, Spanish. Religions: Protestantism, Orthodox Judaism. The islands are hilly and surrounded by coral reefs. Tourism dominates the economy. They probably were originally settled by Arawak Indians, but they were inhabited by the Caribs by the time that Christopher Columbus landed on St. Croix in 1493. St. Croix was occupied by the Dutch, English, French, and Spanish and at one time was owned by the Knights of Malta. Denmark occupied St. Thomas, St. John, and St. Croix and established them as a Danish colony in 1754. The U.S. purchased the Danish West Indies in 1917 for $25 million and changed the name to the Virgin Islands. They were administered by the U.S. Department of the Interior from 1931. In 1954 the Organic Act of the Virgin Islands created the current governmental structure, and in 1970 the first popularly elected governor took office. The area suffered extensive damage by hurricane in 1995
Virgin Islands of the United States: group of islands in the West Indies that is an incorporated territory of the United States of America
Virgin Mary: Holy Virgin, Mary, mother of Jesus
Virgin Mary: in the Christian religion, the mother of Jesus Christ. According to the New Testament of the Bible, when Mary was a young woman an angel came to her from God and told her that she was going to have a baby, although she had never had sex, and that the baby would be the son of God. She is especially important to Roman Catholics, who have pictures and statues of her in their churches and homes, and who often pray to her for help
Virgin Queen: a name sometimes given to the English queen, Elizabeth I, because she never married
Virgin River: A river, about 322 km (200 mi) long, of southwest Utah and southeast Nevada flowing generally southwest and south to Lake Mead
virgin birth: birth by a woman who never had intercourse with a man
virgin birth: the theological doctrine that Jesus Christ had no human father; Christians believe that Jesus's birth fulfilled Old Testament prophecies and was attended by miracles; the Nativity is celebrated at Christmas
virgin forest: first-growth forest, forest that has never been logged by humans
virgin gold: pure gold, solid gold
virgin islands: a group of islands in northeastern West Indies (east of Puerto Rico) discovered by Christopher Colombus in 1493; owned by United States and Britain
virgin islands national park: a national park in the Virgin Islands having tropical plants and animals; sandy beaches and coral reefs
virgin land: field that has not been sown, soil that has not been worked, unplowed land
virgin mary: a Bloody Mary made without alcohol
virgin material: never processed other than that required for initial pellet manufacture
virgin material: A plastic material in the form of pellets, granules, powder floc or liquid that has not been subjected to use or processing other than that required for its original manufacture
virgin paper: Paper made from original tree pulp
virgin paper: Paper made exclusively of pulp from trees or cotton, as compared to recycled paper
virgin paper: Paper made exclusively of new pulp from trees or cotton No recycled materials are included
virgin queen: (1533-1603) Queen Elizabeth I of England (reigned from 1558-1603)
virgin snow: snow that never melts; new-fallen snow
virgin soil: untilled land, field that has not been sown
virgin wool: wool not used before; wool not processed or woven before
virgin wool: Wool that has not previously been used in manufacture
virgin's bower: common climber of eastern North America that sprawls over other plants and bears numerous panicles of small creamy white flowers
virgin-: adj Unused; pristine; in a known initial state "Let's bring up a virgin system and see if it crashes again " (Esp useful after contracting a {virus} through {SEX} ) Also, by extension, buffers and the like within a program that have not yet been used
virgin-: 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"
virgin-: A woman who is not controlled by a man, remaining unshackled The term often given to the sacred priestesses of old who would never marry
virgin-: a person who has never had sex
virgin-: the sixth sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about August 23 to September 22
virgin-: (astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Virgo
virgin-: A descriptive term applied to products produced directly from crude to distinguish them from similar products from cracking processes
virgin-: Someone who is new to hashing Like virginity, this state once lost, can never be regained Of course, it could also refer to the real thing
virgin-: being used or worked for the first time; "virgin wool"
British Virgin Islander: A person from the British Virgin Islands or of descent of the British Virgin Islands
British Virgin Islands: A British overseas territory in the Caribbean
German virgin: The name of a poker hand in the game of Texas hold 'em, when a player is dealt two nine cards
US Virgin Islands: A group of islands in the Caribbean that is a dependency of the United States. Official name: Virgin Islands of the United States
United States Virgin Islands: An island group in the Virgin Islands, a dependency of the United States of America
Virgins: The Virgin Islands
born-again virgin: An individual who refrains from sexual activity, regardless of any past unchaste behavior
born-again virgin: A woman who undergoes a hymenorrhaphy to restore her hymen
extra-virgin: Of a fine grade of virgin olive oil
extra-virgin: An olive oil of this grade
vestal virgin: a virgin dedicated to the service of the goddess Vesta
vestal virgin: a chaste woman
A virgin: maiden
Blessed Virgin: Virgin Mary, Holy Virgin, mother of Jesus
Blessed Virgin Mary: The Virgin Mary
British Virgin Islands: A British colony in the eastern Caribbean east of Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Road Town, on Tortola Island, is the capital. Population: 12,034. v. Dependent territory (pop., 2002 est.: 21,272) of the United Kingdom, eastern Caribbean Sea. Part of the island chain of the Virgin Islands, which are divided between the U.K. and the U.S., it consists of four larger islands (Tortola, Anegada, Virgin Gorda, and Jost Van Dyke) and many smaller uninhabited islands. The chief town and port is Road Town on Tortola. The majority of British Virgin Islanders are black or of mixed ancestry, the descendants of African slaves. English is the chief language and Protestantism is the chief religion. The islands are generally hilly, and many have lagoons with coral reefs and barrier beaches. Tourism is the mainstay of the economy. For the early history, see Virgin Islands of the U.S. The islands were a haunt for pirates, and Tortola was held by Dutch buccaneers until it was taken by English planters in 1666; it was annexed by the British-administered Leeward Islands in 1672. The British sugar plantations declined after slavery was abolished in the 19th century. The islands were part of the Colony of the Leeward Islands from 1872 until 1956, when the British Virgin Islands became a separate colony
British Virgin Islands: {i} group of islands in the West Indies that are under the political administration of Britain
british virgin islands: more than 40 northeastern Virgin Islands (15 inhabited); a dependent territory of the United Kingdom
extra virgin: extra virgin olive oil comes from olives that are pressed for the first time, and is considered to be the best quality olive oil
no longer a virgin: has had sexual intercourse
the Virgin: {i} Holy Virgin, Mary, Mother of Jesus
united states virgin islands: more than 130 southeastern Virgin Islands; a dependent territory of the United States
vestal virgin: nun, virgin dedicated to the service of the Roman goddess Vesta
vestal virgin: One of the priestesses who tended the sacred fire in the temple of Vesta in ancient Rome and remained celibate during their servitude. In Roman religion, any of six priestesses, representing the daughters of the royal house, who tended the state cult of Vesta. Chosen between the ages of 6 and 10, they served for 30 years, during which time they had to remain virgins; violation of the vow of chastity was punishable by burial alive. Their duties included tending the perpetual fire in the Temple of Vesta, fetching water from a sacred spring, preparing ritual food, caring for objects in the temple's inner sanctuary, and officiating at the public worship of Vesta. They enjoyed many honours and privileges, including emancipation from their fathers' rule
vestal virgin: (Roman mythology) one of the virgin priestesses consecrated to the Roman goddess Vesta and to maintaining the sacred fire in her temple
virgins: plural of virgin