virginnoun [ C ]
uk/ˈvɜː.dʒɪn/us/ˈvɝː.dʒɪn/C2 someone who has never had sex:
She remained a virgin until she was over thirty.
Do you think he's still a virgin?
humorous a person with no experience of a particular activity
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- He wants to marry a virgin.
- She was a virgin until she was 30.
- He is a political virgin.
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Inexperienced people and lack of experience
- apprentice
- beginner
- blind
- dilettante
- freshman
- functional illiterate
- greenhorn
- know
- layman
- laywoman
- lightweight
- neophyte
- newcomer
- probationer
- rookie
- stranger
- the blind leading the blind idiom
- the uninitiated
- upstart
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virginadjective
uk/ˈvɜː.dʒɪn/us/ˈvɝː.dʒɪn/virgin adjective (AREA/THING)
C2 A virgin forest or area of land has not yet been cultivated (= used to grow crops) or used by people:
The railway is being extended into areas of virgin forest.
Virgin oil, especially olive oil, is made directly from pressing the fruit, rather than by using heat:
extra virgin olive oil
[ before noun ] literary pure and not spoiled, especially when describing something white:
a virgin sheet of paper (= one not written on)
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Geography: deserts, prairies & wildernesses
- badlands
- Bushman
- common
- desert
- dust bowl
- meadow
- moor
- moorland
- pampas
- plain
- scrub
- steppe
- sward
- tall-grass prairie
- the outback
- tundra
- undeveloped
- waste
- wasteland
- wild
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Fats & oils in food & cooking
Unspoilt
Black, white & grey
virgin adjective (PERSON)
[ before noun ] never having had sex:
a virgin bride
virginal
adjective uk/ˈvɜː.dʒɪ.nəl/us/ˈvɝː.dʒɪ.nəl/
virginal innocence/modesty/purity
virginity
noun [ U ] uk/vəˈdʒɪn.ə.ti/us/vɚˈdʒɪn.ə.t̬i/
She lost her virginity at the age of 16 to the boy next door.
Idiom(s)
virgin territory