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to lose one's virginity

to lose one's virginity

56 8.4
To have sex for the first time
  • idiom
  • NSFW
translation icon : perder la virginidad
  • Many people feel nervous about the moment they lose their virginity for the first time.

Examples

  • You lost your virginity to her.

    Bedroom Story (2020)

  • Once you lose your virginity, the second time... You want to keep going?

    Honor Society (2022)

  • And I will only lose my virginity for love.

    Love in the Time of Cholera (2007)

  • And this was to be the night that they were gonna lose their virginity.

    The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012)

  • 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.

    Men (2022)

  • 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

to deflower
vsto lose one's virginity
  • Offensive
5 9.9

To have sex with a woman or girl who has not had sex before

is neutral and not specifically about loss of innocence or female subjects
to pop someone's cherry
vsto lose one's virginity
  • Offensive
1 9.9

To have sex with someone for the first time

is a neutral expression for the same event

Surface Forms

lose one's virginity infinitive
losing one's virginity present participle
loses one's virginity third person singular
lost one's virginity past
lost one's virginity past participle

Morphology

lose + one's + virginity

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'.