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virginals

virginals is the alternative form of virginal.

virginals is the plural of virginal.

Meaning of virginal

Noun

virginal (plural virginal or virginals)

  1. A musical instrument in the harpsichord family.
    • His uncle, a Cardinal, engages a Spanish youth of Moorish descent called Diego, an expert singer and player on the virginal, to unlock the secrets of the heart, and to cleanse his bosom of the perilous stuff, and cure him by the spell of his music.1932, Maurice Baring, chapter 16, in Friday's Business
    Synonyms:
    pair of virginals

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Forms of virginals

pluralvirginals

Questions about virginals

What is virginals the alternative form of?
Virginals is the alternative form of virginal.

Words near virginals in the dictionary

  1. virginalist
  2. virginalists
  3. virginality
  4. virginalls
  5. virginally
  6. virginals
  7. virginamycin
  8. virginas
  9. virgineous
  10. virginhead
  11. virginhood

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Adapted from Wiktionary: virginals (page history and authors); virginal (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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