to lose one's virginity
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8.4
- idiom
- NSFW
:
perder la virginidad
- Many people feel nervous about the moment they lose their virginity for the first time.
Examples
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You lost your virginity to her.
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Once you lose your virginity, the second time... You want to keep going?
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And I will only lose my virginity for love.
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And this was to be the night that they were gonna lose their virginity.
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I was wearing that dress the day I lost my virginity.
Fiction book (2001) -
I was there when you lost your virginity.
Fiction book (2000) -
I'm asking you at what age you lost your virginity.
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I'm ready to lose my virginity to you tonight.
Fiction book (2002) -
We see the faces of teenage boys and girls as they lose their virginity.
Fiction book (2000) -
So, I flew to another country with the intent of losing my virginity.
Blog text (15)
Synonyms
5
9.9
To have sex with a woman or girl who has not had sex before
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9.9
To have sex with someone for the first time
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'lose' (cease to have) combined with 'virginity' (the state of never having had sexual intercourse) yields 'cease to be a virgin', i.e. having sexual intercourse for the first time. This construction is also common cross-linguistically (e.g. Spanish perder la virginidad, French perdre sa virginité), so an average B1 learner who knows the constituents will very likely infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Lose one's virginity treats virginity as something you have; to lose it means you no longer have it. That's why the phrase means 'to have sexual intercourse for the first time'.