Collins English-English Dictionary

virgin ['v3ːʤɪn]

1. 1. n a person, esp a woman, who has never had sexual intercourse

2. 2. n an unmarried woman who has taken a religious vow of chastity in order to dedicate herself totally to God

3. 3. n any female animal that has never mated

4. 4. n a female insect that produces offspring by parthenogenesis

5. 5. n a person who is new to or inexperienced in a specified field

   a political virgin

6. 6. adj [usually prenominal] of, relating to, resembling, suitable for, or characteristic of a virgin or virgins; chaste

7. 7. adj pure and natural, uncorrupted, unsullied, or untouched

   virgin purity

8. 8. adj not yet cultivated, explored, exploited, etc, by man

   virgin territories

9. 9. adj being the first or happening for the first time

10. 10. adj (of vegetable oils) obtained directly by the first pressing of fruits, leaves, or seeds of plants without applying heat

11. 11. adj (of a metal) made from an ore rather than from scrap

12. 12. adj occurring naturally in a pure and uncombined form

    virgin silver

13. 13. adj [physics] (of a neutron) not having experienced a collision

14. 14. adj [Etymology] C13: from Old French virgine, from Latin virgo virgin