Virgin

Quick meaning: Virgin is a noun meaning A person who has never had sexual intercourse, or (uncommonly) an animal that has never mated.

Meaning

A person who has never had sexual intercourse, or (uncommonly) an animal that has never mated.

More Meanings

1. A person who has never engaged in any sexual activity at all.
2. (informal) One who has never used or experienced a specified thing.
3. Any of several species of gossamer-winged butterflies of the family Lycaenidae.
4. (Catholicism, 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.
5. (entomology) A female insect producing eggs from which young are hatched, though there has been no fecundation by a male; a parthenogenetic insect.
6. (derogatory, slang) A person who plays certain video games that are popularly believed to appeal to virgins, e.g., League of Legends, Paradox Interactive grand strategy games, and World of Warcraft.
7. (slang) A dedicated fan of "virgincore" bands, e.g., Car Seat Headrest, Radiohead, and Weezer.

Example Sentences

A girl is a virgin until she experience penis-inside-vagina intercourse

among students we studied , 60 % of the virgin females had had oral sex experience

adolescents often define themselves as still a virgin while experimenting with oral sex

I was a virgin. In my senior year of high school, I had experienced one inchoate handjob

Word Forms

• virgins

Synonyms for virgin

Depending on context, synonyms include maid, maiden, vestal, pristine, unspoilt, untouched.

Antonyms for virgin

Common opposites include copulator, libertine.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include virginal, chaste, pure, virtuous, new, vestal.

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