maiden
noun /ˈmeɪdn/
/ˈmeɪdn/
- (literary) a young girl or woman who is not married
少女;处女;未婚女子 - stories of knights and fair maidens
关于骑士和美女的故事
- stories of knights and fair maidens
- (also maiden over)(in cricket
) an over in which no points are scored板球 Topics Sports: ball and racket sportsc2未得分的一轮投球
词源Old English mægden, from a Germanic diminutive meaning ‘maid, virgin’; related to German Mädchen, diminutive of Magd ‘maid’, from an Indo-European root shared by Old Irish mug ‘boy, servant’.