virgin

1. 1.

   being used or worked for the first time

   “virgin wool”

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2. 2.

   in a state of sexual virginity

   “pure and vestal modesty”

   “a spinster or virgin lady”

   “men have decreed that their women must be pure and virginal”

   Synonymspurevestalvirginalvirtuous

   Similarchaste

Other forms of virgin

plural

virgins·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about virgin

What does virgin mean?

virgin means "a person who has never had sex". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in virgin?

virgin has 2 syllables: vir-gin. The stress falls on "vir". In IPA it is /ˈvɝdʒɪn/.

What is another word for virgin?

Close synonyms include Virgo, Virgo, Virgo the Virgin, pure, vestal. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is virgin a common word?

virgin is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.