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virgin

virgin

21 5.0
New material that has not been used before
  • adjective
  • /ˈvɜrdʒɪn/
  • Specialized
translation icon : virgen
  • Virgin territory for the man who knows how to open up new markets.
  • virgin material
  • virgin forest
  • virgin wood

It's, you know, avocados, it's extra virgin olive oil, it's nuts and seeds.

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Examples

  • One of the ingredients is extra virgin olive oil.

  • It's a Fabiani, hand stitched, hand rolled, virgin alpaca.

  • We will return it to its virgin state.

  • - Virgin olive oil, you can get it anywhere.

  • It's organic extra virgin olive oil, and it's cold pressed.

  • It's like virgin land.

  • New engineering has also helped decouple demand for virgin wood from the swelling population and economy.

    Academic text (2000)
  • But now, somehow, on the return trip, your footprints fade into virgin snow.

    Fiction book (2000)
  • So this is my natural virgin undyed, unbleached, unprocessed hair.

  • The company uses virgin materials to ensure the highest quality of their products.

Antonyms

4 2.1

Damaged and showing signs of long use

1.0

Owned by someone else before

Compounds

the Virgin
  • Formal
35 6.0

A woman who is the mother of Jesus in Christian belief, especially honored by Catholics

A group of islands in the Caribbean east of Puerto Rico shared by the United States and Britain

5 8.8

Becoming pregnant when a woman has not had sex

4 7.3

A title for Mary, the mother of Jesus, used mainly by Christians, especially Catholics

virgin forest
  • Specialized
2 5.6

A forest with many old trees that is not changed by people

vestal virgin
  • Literature
1 9.9

A Roman woman priest who kept a temple's sacred fire burning

1 3.5

A drink of tomato juice and spices with no alcohol

virgin wool
  • Specialized
1 4.2

New material from sheep that has not been used or made into cloth before

Virgin Birth
  • Specialized
1 7.5

The belief that Jesus was born to Mary without a human father by the Holy Spirit

A group of islands in the Caribbean Sea that are a British territory with beaches and towns

4.6

A place where people register companies and trusts for tax and financial services

A group of islands in the Caribbean that are part of the United States

A group of islands in the Caribbean Sea that belong to the United States

A group of Catholic nuns founded in Gandino, Italy in 1818 that run schools and help people in need

Virgin Birth
  • Specialized
7.5

A type of reproduction where an animal grows from an egg that has not been fertilized

A national park on St John with tropical plants, sandy beaches, and coral reefs

A locked space for valuable things that no one has opened

A zodiac sign for people born between August 23 and September 22, shown as a young woman

How New

virgin
  • Specialized
21 5.0
pristine
63 5.1
new
1.0
recycling
33 1.8
used
1.0

Surface Forms

virgin positive

Etymology

Virgin comes from the Latin virgo, which meant 'maiden' and suggested someone 'untouched', so virgin came to mean 'new' or 'not used', as in virgin forest or virgin oil.