Definition of "virgin" in английский

noun

1. A person who has never had sexual intercourse, or (uncommonly) an animal that has never mated.

   • On the other hand, the daughter of a clergyman repeatedly performed fellatio instead of genital intercourse so that she could remain a virgin.
   • among students we studied , 60 % of the virgin females had had oral sex experience
   • A girl is a virgin until she experience penis-inside-vagina intercourse
   • I was a virgin. In my senior year of high school, I had experienced one inchoate handjob
   • adolescents often define themselves as still a virgin while experimenting with oral sex
   • A Pike High School teen says most teens “think if you have oral sex you are still a virgin.
   • she's never actually told the girls she's still a virgin—that the pinnacle of her sexual experience was giving a pretty cruddy handjob to Jared Wells
   • It's really a miracle I'm still a virgin at twenty-one in the first place. I guess my talent at blowjobs and handjobs paid off.

2. A person who has never engaged in any sexual activity at all.

3. (Catholicism, Orthodoxy or historical) Someone vowed to virginity (usually a woman and often a consecrated virgin), or someone who died in defense of their virginity; (especially) one venerated as a saint.

   • In its list of saints, the Catholic Church classifies St. Agnes, St. Maria Goretti, and St. Thérèse of Lisieux as virgins.

4. (informal) One who has never used or experienced a specified thing.

   • I've never eaten tofu before—you could say I'm a tofu virgin.

5. Any of several species of gossamer-winged butterflies of the family Lycaenidae.

6. (entomology) A female insect producing eggs from which young are hatched, though there has been no fecundation by a male; a parthenogenetic insect.

adjective

1. (usually not comparable) In a state of virginity; chaste, not having had sexual intercourse.

2. Of a physical object, untouched.

3. Not yet cultivated, explored, or exploited by humans or humans of certain civilizations.

   • virgin prairie
   • virgin ecosystem
   • virgin forest
   • virgin clay
   • The virgin lands of the Americas were awaiting the Europeans.

4. Inexperienced.

5. Of olive oil, obtained by mechanical means, so that the oil is not altered.

6. (usually not comparable) Of mixed drinks, not containing alcohol.