maiden

Examples

• All

• The bowler achieved a remarkable feat by delivering a maiden over, preventing any runs from being scored.

• Walter, I’m thinking about going back to my maiden name.

  Runaway Bride (1999)

• Do we know the girl's maiden name?

  The Sugarland Express (1974)

• Then I will tell you her Christian and her maiden name.

  Murder on the Orient Express (1974)

• "You never told me her maiden name, did you?"

  Fiction book (2001)

• My mom died and I moved away from the Keys... changed my name, took her maiden name.

  Road House (2024)

• I know my mother's maiden name just as well as he did.

  Fiction book (1999)

• Jensen was her married name; her maiden name was Rose.

  Fiction book (1994)

• Mrs. Andrews' maiden name was Bourgeois.

  A Perfect World (1993)

• Mrs. Armstrong's maiden name was Greenwood.

  Murder on the Orient Express (1974)

Synonyms

M

maiden over

vsmaiden

• UK

9.8

One set of six balls in cricket when the batting team scores no runs

has identical meaning but is the shorter single word form

Compounds

M

maiden name

45 3.1

A woman's last name before she marries

M

maiden voyage

10 4.9

A first trip by a new ship or plane after it is built

M

maiden aunt

• Archaic

1 7.2

A parent's sister who never married

M

maiden flight

1 5.7

The first time a new plane, rocket, or vehicle goes into the air

I

iron maiden

• NSFW

1 9.9

An iron box shaped like a person with spikes inside that causes great pain or death

I

ice maiden

• Offensive

1 8.8

A woman who seems cold and shows little feeling

M

maiden blue-eyed Mary

• US

9.9

A small wildflower with tiny blue and white flowers that grows in western North America

M

maiden over

• UK

9.8

One set of six balls in cricket when the batting team scores no runs

M

maiden pink

• UK

9.1

A small low plant with pale pink flowers and dark centers

Surface Forms

Etymology