maidenとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /ˈmeɪdən/
• 韻: -eɪdən

名詞

maiden (plural maidens)

1. (now chiefly literary) A girl or an unmarried young woman.
2. (archaic) A female virgin.

   She's unmarried and still a maiden.

3. (obsolete, dialectal) A man with no experience of sex, especially because of deliberate abstention.
   • 1470–1485 (date produced), Thomas Malory, “Capitulum Quartum”, in [Le Morte Darthur], book XI (in Middle English), [London: […] by William Caxton], published 31 July 1485, →OCLC, leaf 289, recto; republished as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, Le Morte Darthur […], London: David Nutt, […], 1889, →OCLC, page 577:

     As for that ſaid ſire Bors I wille be ſhryuen with a good wylle / Soo ſyr Bors was confeſſyd / and for al wymmen ſir Bors was a vyrgyne / ſauf for one / that was the doughter of kynge Brangorys / and on her he gat a child that hyghte Elayne / and ſauf for her ſyre Bors was a clene mayden […]

     As for that, said Sir Bors, I will be shriven with a good will. So Sir Bors was confessed, and for all women Sir Bors was a virgin, save for one, that was the daughter of King Brangoris, and with her he begat a child that hight Elaine, and save for her Sir Bors was a clean maiden.

4. A maidservant.
5. A clothes maiden.
6. (now rare) An unmarried woman, especially an older woman.
7. (horse racing) A racehorse without any victory, i.e. one having a "virgin record".
8. (horse racing) A horse race in which all starters are maidens.
9. (historical) A Scottish counterpart of the guillotine.
   • 1832, Robert Chambers, The History of Scotland:

     It had been customary during the whole civil war, to decapitate state criminals by the instrument called the maiden; but Montrose was condemned to a more ignominious death , by a gibbet thirty feet high

10. (cricket) A maiden over.
11. (obsolete) A machine for washing linen.
12. (Wicca) Alternative form of Maiden.

同意語

• (unmarried (young) female): bachelorette

派生語

関連する語

• maid

形容詞

maiden (not comparable)

1. Virgin.
   • 1857–1859, W[illiam] M[akepeace] Thackeray, The Virginians. A Tale of the Last Century, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1858–1859, →OCLC:

     a surprising old maiden lady

   • 1859, Charles Dickens, The Haunted House:

     It was just the middle of October when I moved in with my maiden sister […]

2. (of a female, human or animal) Without offspring.
3. Like or befitting a (young, unmarried) maiden.
   • c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii], page 155, column 2:

     Haue you no modeſty, no maiden ſhame, / No touch of baſhfulneſſe?

4. (figuratively) Being a first occurrence or event.

   1975 was the year when West Indies won their maiden World Cup title.

   The Titanic sank on its maiden voyage.

   After Edmund Burke's maiden speech, William Pitt the Elder said Burke had "spoken in such a manner as to stop the mouths of all Europe" and that the Commons should congratulate itself on acquiring such a member.

   • 2012 May 13, Andrew Benson, “Williams's Pastor Maldonado takes landmark Spanish Grand Prix win”, in BBC Sport‎:

     Venezuelan Pastor Maldonado took his maiden victory and Williams's first since 2004 in a strategic battle with Ferrari's Fernando Alonso.

5. (cricket) Being an over in which no runs are scored.

   He bowled a record twelve maiden overs in his spell of 8-33 in 21 overs.

6. Fresh; innocent; unpolluted; pure; hitherto unused.
   • c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iv], page 72, column 2:

     Come Brother Iohn, full brauely haſt thou fleſht thy Maiden ſword.

   • 1613 (date written), William Shakespeare, [John Fletcher], “The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii], page 226, column 2:

     When I am dead, good Wench, / Let me be vs’d with Honor; ſtrew me ouer / With Maiden Flowers, that all the world may know / I was a chaſte Wife, to my Graue: Embalme me, / Then lay me forth (although vnqueen’d) yet like / A Queene, and Daughter to a King enterre me.

7. (of a fortress) Never having been captured or violated.
   • 1631, J. Taylor, (Please provide the book title or journal name):

     Victorie forsook him for ever since he ransacked the maiden town of Magdenburg

   • 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:

     But every citizen considered his own honor as bound up with the honor of the maiden fortress.

8. (of a tree) Grown from seed and never pruned.

同意語

• maidenly

派生語

アナグラム

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