From Middle English virgine, from Old French virgine, from Latin virginem, accusative of virgō. Doublet of Virgo. Displaced native Old English fǣmne.
Meanings
(not-comparable, usually) In a state of virginity; chaste, not having had sexual intercourse.
Helvidius […] took the plain meaning of scripture to say that Jesus patently had brothers and sisters, so therefore his mother, Mary, had enjoyed a normal family life rather than remaining perpetually virgin. 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 314:
Innocence and virgin Modestie […] / That would be woo’d, and not unsought be won 1667, John Milton, “Book VII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
From their embraces was born the handsome Actaeon, a naive boy, who had less excuse than other men, given that he was her son, for believing her to be a virgin. It's true that he was even more virgin than his mother. 1988, Hubert Monteilhet, Neropolis:
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. 1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC:
Of a physical object, untouched.
The white cold virgin snow upon my heart / Abates the ardour of my liver. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:
There is something about virgin sand which arouses all the worst instincts of the detective-story writer. One feels an irresisitible impulse to go and make footprints all over it. 1932, Dorothy L Sayers, chapter 1, in Have his Carcase:
Not yet cultivated, explored, or exploited by humans or humans of certain civilizations.
The same bounty of Summer, the same milde remission of Winter, with a more virgin and unexhausted soyle being materiall arguments to shew that modesty and truth receive no diminution by the comparison. 1650, Edward Williams, Virginia: More Especially the South Part Thereof:
virgin clay
virgin prairie
The virgin lands of the Americas were awaiting the Europeans.
virgin forest
virgin ecosystem
For today’s owners of surveillance capital the experiential realities of bodies, thoughts and feelings are as virgin and blameless as nature’s once-plentiful meadows, rivers, oceans and forests before they fell to the market dynamic. 2019 January 20, John Naughton, quoting Shoshana Zuboff, “‘The goal is to automate us’: welcome to the age of surveillance capitalism”, in The Guardian:
Inexperienced.
The woman shook dangerously, an obvious virgin gunhandler. 2014, Jeremiah Sanchez, Eden's Scarecrow: Real Eyes:
Of olive oil, obtained by mechanical means, so that the oil is not altered.
Wondering how some oil is somehow more virgin than regular virgin olive oil can be a real head-scratcher. 2013, Cheryl Forberg, Cooking with Quinoa For Dummies, page 62:
(not-comparable, usually) Of mixed drinks, not containing alcohol.
lv jaunavīgs (of a person, in a state of virginity) · nb jomfruelig (of olive oil) · he כָּתִית (of olive oil) · pt virgem (not yet cultivated, explored, or exploited by humans or humans of certain civilizations) · hy կուսական (of an object, untouched) · mi hangatahi (of an object, untouched) · id perawan (of a person, in a state of virginity) · tr bakir (of an object, untouched) · ro virgină (of a person, in a state of virginity) · bg девствен (of a person, in a state of virginity) · af maagdelik (of a person, in a state of virginity) · nb jomfruelig (of an object, untouched) · ro virgin (of a person, in a state of virginity) · ro feciorelnic (of a person, in a state of virginity) · az baltadəyməmiş (not yet cultivated, explored, or exploited by humans or humans of certain civilizations) · sw bikira (of a person, in a state of virginity) · de nativ (of olive oil) · hu szűz (of an object, untouched) · mh bōjin (of a person, in a state of virginity) · lv nevainīgs (of a person, in a state of virginity) · gl virxe (not yet cultivated, explored, or exploited by humans or humans of certain civilizations) · hu szűz (of a person, in a state of virginity) · az bakir (not yet cultivated, explored, or exploited by humans or humans of certain civilizations) · pl dziewiczy (of a person, in a state of virginity) · mi horomata (not yet cultivated, explored, or exploited by humans or humans of certain civilizations) · sl deviški (of a person, in a state of virginity) · de jungfräulich (of a person, in a state of virginity) · sw bikira (of olive oil) · gl virxe (of a person, in a state of virginity) · ang fǣmnlīċ (of a person, in a state of virginity) · es virgíneo (of a person, in a state of virginity) · sv jungfrulig (of olive oil) · pt virgem (of a person, in a state of virginity) · sv jungfru- (of olive oil) · pt virgem (of an object, untouched) · ca verge (of an object, untouched) · mi hangatahi (not recycled) (not yet cultivated, explored, or exploited by humans or humans of certain civilizations) · es virgen (of an object, untouched) · nb jomfruelig (of a person, in a state of virginity) · pt virgem (of olive oil) · sl deviški (of olive oil) · vi trinh (of a person, in a state of virginity) · es virgen (not yet cultivated, explored, or exploited by humans or humans of certain civilizations) · af onbelemmerd (of an object, untouched) · la virgineus (of a person, in a state of virginity) · az bakirə (of a person, in a state of virginity) · az əl dəyilməmiş (of an object, untouched) · nl maagdelijk (of a person, in a state of virginity) · az toxunulmamış (of an object, untouched) · es virginal (of a person, in a state of virginity) · bg недокоснат (of an object, untouched) · cs panenský (of a person, in a state of virginity) · es virgen (of olive oil) · mi urutapu (of an object, untouched) · af onaangetas (of an object, untouched) · tr dokunulmamış (of an object, untouched) · pt virginal (of a person, in a state of virginity) · mi tikitū (not yet cultivated, explored, or exploited by humans or humans of certain civilizations) · fi koskematon (of a person, in a state of virginity) · el παρθένος (of a person, in a state of virginity) · ang fǣmnlīċ (of an object, untouched) · fa دست نخورده (of an object, untouched) · ast virxe (of a person, in a state of virginity) · hy կույս (of a person, in a state of virginity) · gl virxe (of an object, untouched) · gl virxinal (of an object, untouched) · hu érintetlen (of an object, untouched) · tr bakir (of a person, in a state of virginity) · tr erden (of a person, in a state of virginity) · hu szűz (of olive oil) · af virgin (of olive oil) · fi neitseellinen (of an object, untouched) · az əl dəyməmiş (of an object, untouched) · tr virjin (of a person, in a state of virginity) · mk девствена (of a person, in a state of virginity) · vi tân (of a person, in a state of virginity) · ca verge (of olive oil) · mi horomata (of olive oil) · fr vierge (of an object, untouched) · gl virxinal (of a person, in a state of virginity) · fr vierge (of olive oil) · es intacto (of an object, untouched) · nl maagdelijk (of an object, untouched) · es virgen (of a person, in a state of virginity) · af suiwer (of olive oil) · tr bakire (of a person, in a state of virginity) · sv jungfrulig (of a person, in a state of virginity) · la virginālis (of a person, in a state of virginity) · ro fecioresc (of a person, in a state of virginity) · mk чист (of an object, untouched) · fr vierge (of a person, in a state of virginity) · de jungfräulich (of an object, untouched) · tl putli (of a person, in a state of virginity) · pl dziewicza (of a person, in a state of virginity) · mk невина (of a person, in a state of virginity) · pt virginal (of an object, untouched) · eo virga (not yet cultivated, explored, or exploited by humans or humans of certain civilizations) · pl dziewiczy (of an object, untouched) · ro virgin (of an object, untouched) · es casto (of a person, in a state of virginity) · sw bikira (of an object, untouched) · eo virga (of an object, untouched) · eo virga (of olive oil) · ota بكر (of a person, in a state of virginity) · gl virxe (of olive oil) · eo virga (of a person, in a state of virginity) · fi neitsyt- (of olive oil) · mk недопрен (of an object, untouched) · nl onbevlekt (of a person, in a state of virginity) · fi koskematon (of an object, untouched) · ca verge (of a person, in a state of virginity) · tr el değmemiş (of an object, untouched) · bg девствена (of a person, in a state of virginity)
From Middle English virgine, from Old French virgine, from Latin virginem, accusative of virgō. Doublet of Virgo. Displaced native Old English fǣmne.
Meanings
A person who has never had sexual intercourse, or (uncommonly) an animal that has never mated.
she's never actually told the girls she's still a virgin—that the pinnacle of her sexual experience was giving a pretty cruddy handjob to Jared Wells 2015 In Some Other World, Maybe: A Novel - Page 28
middle-school girls sometimes look at oral sex as an absolute bargain - you don't get pregnant, they think you don't get diseases, you're still a virgin and you're in control 2008, College Student Journal - Volume 42, Issues 1-2 - Page 183:
adolescents often define themselves as still a virgin while experimenting with oral sex 2004 The Handbook of Sexuality in Close Relationships page 67
Could I convert virgins to nymphomania? Masturbators to rakehood? Faithful wives to adulteresses? Seducers to ascetics? Very doubtful. But possible. 1971, George Cockcroft aka Luke Rhinehart, The Dice Man:
I was a virgin. In my senior year of high school, I had experienced one inchoate handjob 1993 Santa Clara Review page 102
among students we studied , 60 % of the virgin females had had oral sex experience 1987 Psychology and Personal Growthpage 208
It's really a miracle I'm still a virgin at twenty-one in the first place. I guess my talent at blowjobs and handjobs paid off. 2020 Page 1139
A girl is a virgin until she experience penis-inside-vagina intercourse 1988 page 186
A Pike High School teen says most teens “think if you have oral sex you are still a virgin. 2012 Saying Yes! to Saying No page 21
On the other hand, the daughter of a clergyman repeatedly performed fellatio instead of genital intercourse so that she could remain a virgin. 1970 Marriage in Life and Literature page 169
Shepard: Are you telling me you're a virgin?
Liara: "Virgin" does not have the same connotation in my culture as in yours. But is is true I have never done this before. 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Normandy SR-1:
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. 1974, The New Review, Volume 1, Part Page 15:
26 percent of virgin females have performed fellatio while 87 percent of nonvirgins have done so . 1992, Cosmopolitan, volume 212, page 177:
A person who has never engaged in any sexual activity at all.
(qualifier:Orthodoxy or historical) 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.
According to Jerome's account, a young man, who desired to seduce a consecrated virgin of the church, at first attempted to do so through the standard means of seduction: namely, “with touching, jokes, nods, whistles, and the rest” (Vit. Hil. 21.2670–75). 2007, Todd C. Penner, Caroline Vander Stichele, Mapping Gender in Ancient Religious Discourses, BRILL, →ISBN, page 89:
It ought to have become apparent, however, that the well-established order of widows was the model for the newly developing order of virgins. Both orders earned their legitimization from the way of life adopted by their members […] 1994, Susanna Elm, `Virgins of God' : The Making of Asceticism in Late Antiquity: The Making of Asceticism in Late Antiquity, Clarendon Press, →ISBN, page 174:
This was the relation of the order of virgins to the Church from the latter part of the fourth to the beginning of the seventh century. The modern “sister” had no exact prototype in the Church of the first seven centuries. 1894, Authorized Report of the Proceedings of the ... Congress of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States ..., page 109:
In its list of saints, the Catholic Church classifies St. Agnes, St. Maria Goretti, and St. Thérèse of Lisieux as virgins.
The list of saints' days and festivals includes a number of the Romish holidays, properly so called, viz.: Lucian, priest and martyr, Jan. 8 ; Hilary, bishop and confessor, Jan. 13 ; Prisca, virgin and martyr, Jan. 18 ; Fabian, bishop and martyr, Jan. 20 ; Agnes, virgin and martyr, Jan. 21 […] 1894, John McClintock, James Strong, Cyclopaedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature, page 26:
It is evident that those from the priesthood are chiefly taken from the order of virgins, or if not from virgins, at least from monks; or if not from the order of monks, then they are wont to be made priests who keep themselves from their wives […]. 1900, A Select Library of Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church: Second Series, page 366:
Grant, O Lord, I beseech thee, that the Virgin and Martyr, St. Philomena, may solicit thy mercy for us. I implore her intercession, through the merits of her chastity, and by the glory that she gave to thy power, in dying for thee. 2015, Anonymous, Aeterna Press, The Life and Miracles: Saint Philomena, Virgin and Martyr, Aeterna Press:
(informal) One who has never used or experienced a specified thing.
I've never eaten tofu before—you could say I'm a tofu virgin.
Any of several species of gossamer-winged butterflies of the family Lycaenidae.
A female insect producing eggs from which young are hatched, though there has been no fecundation by a male; a parthenogenetic insect.
kmr keçîn (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · da mø (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · he בְּתוּלָה (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · ja 未通女 (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · fo jomfrú (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · tr bakir (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · ru де́вственница (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · cs panna (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · es doncella (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · es doncel (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · af maagd (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · ro fecioară (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · ko 처녀 (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · ett 𐌚𐌀𐌓𐌈𐌀𐌍𐌀 class animate (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · ro virgin (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · fr vierge (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · fo moyggj (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · th ซิง (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · fa-ira دوشیزِهْ (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · ru де́вственник (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · rup virghirã (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · el παρθένα (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · nb jomfru (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · pl prawiczek (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · ang fǣmne (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · eo virgulo (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · pl dziewica (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · gd ainnir (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · uz bokira (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · uk ді́вич (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · gd maighdeann (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · osx thiorna (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · th บริสุทธิ์ (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · za sengsau (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · cop ⲣⲟⲟⲩⲛⲉ (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · uk неза́йманець (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · cu дѣва (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · ast virxe (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · rm virgina (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · nrf vièrge (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · ota بكر (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · fo moy (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · de Jungfrau (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · la virgō (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · tr erden (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · got 𐌼𐌰𐌲𐌰𐌸𐍃 (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · gd òigh (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · is hrein mey (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · he בָּתוּל (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · ur کُن٘واری (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · fa-ira باکِرِه (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · te కన్య (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · ar بتول (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · it vergine (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · tl putli (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · ko 아다 (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · sh djèvica (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · ja 処女 (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · rup virghir (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · sh devac (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · grc παρθένος (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · ja 処子 (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · sl devica (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · sw bikira (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · osx fēmia (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · yi בתולה (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · sa अक्षता (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · tr bakire (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · ja バージン (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · ka უმანკო (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · cs panic (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · osx magath (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · az bakir (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · ro virgină (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · ko 동정녀 (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · tg бокира (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · fa-ira جَوانزَن (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · mi wāhina (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · ett 𐌚𐌀𐌓𐌈𐌍𐌄 class animate (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · cy morwyn (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · dz གསར་གཙང (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · uk неза́ймана (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · is jómfrú (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · dz ཁ་གསར (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · ko 총각 (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · esu nas'ak (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · tg афифа (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · lt mergelė (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · es virgen (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · cmn 處子 /处子 (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · be няві́нніца (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · be няві́ннік (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · id perawan (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · ja 童貞 (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · nl maagd (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · sv jungfru (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · ja 生娘 (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · sh дѐвица (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · pdt Junkfru (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · hit 𒋗𒌒𒁉𒌍𒊭𒀸 (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · uk ді́ва (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · hi कुंवारी (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · bg деви́ца (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · uz maʻsuma (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · rsk дївица (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · mh bōjin (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · ru це́лка (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · lv jaunava (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · hi कुँआरी (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · sh дјѐвица (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · kl arnaq ueqanngitsoq (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · da jomfru (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · nah chipuchica (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · ro fată mare (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · sw mwanamwali (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · bg де́вственик (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · cy gwyry (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · mk де́вица (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · fr puceau (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · ca verge (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · bg де́вственица (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · sa कन्या (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · hu szűz (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · cmn 處女 /处女 (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · et neitsi (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · sv oskuld (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · ko 숫처녀 (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · mbb raɣa (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · tr virjin (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · ka ქალწული (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · wyi burne-burne (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · es señorita (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · eo virgulino (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · ka ქალიშვილი (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · is hreinn sveinn (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · fr pucelle (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · sl devičnik (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · njo-jgl aiür (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · sq virgjëreshë (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · am ድንግል (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · hy կույս (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · fi neitsyt (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · sh дѐвaц (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · ar بِكْر (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · az bakirə (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · pt virgem (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · id perjaka (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · cmn 處男 /处男 (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · ga maighdean (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · vi trinh nữ (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · cop ⲡⲁⲣⲑⲉⲛⲟⲥ (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · sh дjѐвaц (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · sh dèvica (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · ovd jummfru (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · mi puhi (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · sk panna (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · ka უბიწო (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · ar عَذْرَاء (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · it vergine (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · sh djevac (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · se buhtisnieida (person who has never had sexual intercourse) · gl virxe (person who has never had sexual intercourse)