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mayden

mayden is the obsolete form of maiden.

Meaning of maiden

Noun

maiden (plural maidens)

  1. (literary) A girl or an unmarried young woman.
  2. (archaic) A female virgin.
    • She's unmarried and still a maiden.
    Synonyms:
    bachelorette
  3. (dialectal, obsolete) A man with no experience of sex, especially because of deliberate abstention.
    • As for that ſaid ſire Bors I wille be ſhryuen with a good wylle / Soo ſyr Bors was confeſſyd / and for al wymmen ſir Bors was a vyrgyne / ſauf for one / that was the doughter of kynge Brangorys / and on her he gat a child that hyghte Elayne / and ſauf for her ſyre Bors was a clene mayden[…]1470–1485 (date produced), Thomas Malory, “Capitulum Quartum”, in [Le Morte Darthur], book XI (in Middle English), [London: […] by William Caxton], published 31 July 1485, →OCLC, leaf 289, recto...
  4. A maidservant.
  5. A clothes maiden.
  6. (archaic) An unmarried woman, especially an older woman.

See all 23 meanings of maiden

Proper noun capitalized: Mayden

Mayden (plural Maydens)

  1. A surname.

Forms of mayden

Noun
pluralmaydens
Proper noun
pluralMaydens

Origin of mayden

Variant of Maiden.

Questions about mayden

What does mayden mean?
Mayden means a surname.
What is mayden the obsolete form of?
Mayden is the obsolete form of maiden.
What part of speech is mayden?
Mayden is a proper noun.

Words near mayden in the dictionary

  1. Maycocks
  2. Maycomb
  3. Mayda
  4. mayday
  5. maydays
  6. mayden
  7. Maydena
  8. maydenly
  9. maydens
  10. Maydolong
  11. Maydon

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mayden (page history and authors); Mayden (page history and authors); maiden (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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