Maidenhead

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Maidenhead \Maid"en*head\, n. [See {Maidenhood}.]
     1. The state of being a maiden; maidenhood; virginity.
        --Shak.
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     2. The state of being unused or uncontaminated; freshness;


        purity. [Obs.]
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              The maidenhead of their credit.       --Sir H.
                                                    Wotton.
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     3. The hymen, or virginal membrane.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  maidenhead
       n : a fold of tissue that partly covers the entrance to the
           vagina of a virgin [syn: {hymen}, {virginal membrane}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  50 Moby Thesaurus words for "maidenhead":
     Platonic love, abstinence, allantoic membrane, amnion,
     amniotic sac, arachnoid membrane, bachelordom, bachelorhood,
     bachelorism, bachelorship, basement membrane, boyhood, celibacy,
     cherry, childhood, conjuctiva, continence, continency, eardrum,
     girlhood, hymen, intactness, maidenhood, membrana serosa,
     membrana tympana, membrane, meninges, meninx, misogamy, misogyny,
     monachism, monasticism, neurilemma, pellicle, pericardium,
     perineurium, pleura, pre-teens, serosa, single blessedness,
     single state, singleness, spinsterhood, subteens,
     tympanic membrane, tympanum, unwed state, velum, virgin state,
     virginity