Virgin

/ˈvɜːd͡ʒɪn/ · noun

Meaning

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

Definitions by Sense

1. A person who has never had sexual intercourse, or (uncommonly) an animal that has never mated.
2. A person who has never engaged in any sexual activity at all.
3. (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.
4. (informal) One who has never used or experienced a specified thing.
5. Any of several species of gossamer-winged butterflies of the family Lycaenidae.
6. (entomology) A female insect producing eggs from which young are hatched, though there has been no fecundation by a male; a parthenogenetic insect.
7. (slang) A dedicated fan of "virgincore" bands, e.g., Car Seat Headrest, Radiohead, and Weezer.
8. (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.

Example Sentences

On the other hand, the daughter of a clergyman repeatedly performed fellatio instead of genital intercourse so that she could remain a virgin.

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

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

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

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

A Pike High School teen says most teens “think if you have oral sex you are still a virgin.

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

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.

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• virgins
• more virgin
• most virgin

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