(vûr′jin) noun
1. A person, especially a young woman, who has never had sexual intercourse; a maiden.
2. A chaste young girl or unmarried woman; a spinster.
3. Eccl. a A member of a religious community who has taken a vow of chastity; a nun. b A chaste, unmarried woman honored for her piety or virtue: used as an epithet of saints: St. Cecilia, virgin and martyr.
4. Any female animal before its first copulation.
5. Entomol. A female insect producing fertile eggs by parthenogenesis.
—adjective
1. Being a virgin.
2. Consisting of virgins: a virgin band.
3. Pertaining or suited to a virgin; chaste; maidenly.
4. Uncorruptepure; undefiled: virgin whiteness.
5. Not hitherto used, touched, tilled, or worked upon by man: virgin soil; virgin forest.
6. Not previously processed, manufactured, or acted upon; new: virgin rubber; virgin wool.
7. Obtained from the first pressing (of olives, nuts, etc.) without the use of heat: said of an oil.
8. Metall. Produced directly from ore, or at the primary smelting: virgin silver.
9. Mining Occurring in native form; unalloyed; unmixed: virgin gold.
10. First: a ship's virgin voyage.
1. Untrained; lacking experience or contact with: waters virgin of ships.
12. Zool. Parthenogenetic. [<OF virgine <L virgo, -inis a maiden]

(vûr′jin)
1. Mary, the mother of Jesus: usually with the: also, the Virgin Mary, the Blessed Virgin.
2. The constellation Virgo. See CONSTELLATION.