virgin

virgin
[[t]vɜ͟ː(r)ʤɪn[/t]]
virgins
1) N-COUNT A virgin is someone, especially a woman or girl, who has never had sex.

I was a virgin until I was thirty years old...

They were both virgins when they met and married.

Derived words:
virginity [[t]və(r)ʤɪ̱nɪti[/t]] N-UNCOUNT

She lost her virginity when she was 20.

2) ADJ: usu ADJ n You use virgin to describe something such as land that has never been used or spoiled.

Within 40 years there will be no virgin forest left.

...a sloping field of virgin snow.

Syn:
3) PHRASE: v-link PHR, PHR after v If you say that a situation is virgin territory, you mean that you have no experience of it and it is completely new for you.
4) N-COUNT: oft n N You can use virgin to describe someone who has never done or used a particular thing before.

Until he appeared in `In the Line of Fire' Malkovich had been an action-movie virgin...

He was a political virgin when Mrs Thatcher picked him as Lord Advocate.


English dictionary. 2008.

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