maidenhead

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: maid=en=head

CIDE DICTIONARY

maidenhead, n. [See Maidenhood.].

•  The state of being a maiden; maidenhood; virginity.  Shak.  [1913 Webster]
•  The state of being unused or uncontaminated; freshness; purity.  [1913 Webster]

  "The maidenhead of their credit."  [1913 Webster]
•  The hymen, or virginal membrane.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

maidenhead, n.
1 virginity.
2 the hymen.

THESAURUS

maidenhead

Platonic love, abstinence, allantoic membrane, amnion, amniotic sac, arachnoid membrane, bachelordom, bachelorhood, bachelorism, bachelorship, basement membrane, boyhood, celibacy, cherry, childhood, conjuctiva, continence, continency, eardrum, girlhood, hymen, intactness, maidenhood, membrana serosa, membrana tympana, membrane, meninges, meninx, misogamy, misogyny, monachism, monasticism, neurilemma, pellicle, pericardium, perineurium, pleura, pre-teens, serosa, single blessedness, single state, singleness, spinsterhood, subteens, tympanic membrane, tympanum, unwed state, velum, virgin state, virginity

ROGET THESAURUS

maidenhead

Celibacy

N celibacy, singleness, single blessedness, bachelorhood, bachelorship, misogamy, misogyny, virginity, pucelage, maidenhood, maidenhead, unmarried man, bachelor, Coelebs, agamist, old bachelor, misogamist, misogynist, monogamist, monk, unmarried woman, spinster, maid, maiden, virgin, feme sole, old maid, bachelor girl, girl-bachelor, nun, unmarried, unwed, unwedded, wifeless, spouseless, single.