- (literary)
a young girl or woman who is not married 少女;处女;未婚女子 stories of knights and fair maidens 关于骑士和美女的故事
- (also maiden over)
(in cricket )板球 an over in which no points are scored Topics Sports: ball and racket sportsc2未得分的一轮投球
Word OriginOld English mægden, from a Germanic diminutive meaning ‘maid, virgin’; related to German Mädchen, diminutive of Magd ‘maid’, from an Indo-European root shared by Old Irish mug ‘boy, servant’.