Maiden
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Maiden may refer to:
- A female virgin (though originally it referred to males as well) or to any young woman
- In certain Native American tribes such as Hopi and Tewa a woman between her first menses and the birth of her first child, associated with the wearing of a specialized hair style and other attributes of dress and behaviour
- A maiden over in the sport of cricket
- Maiden (beheading), a beheading device
- The first of the three aspects of the Triple Goddess
- Iron Maiden, a heavy metal band
- "New, fresh, first" (for example maiden voyage and maiden speech (also called "first speech") a figurative sense first recorded in 1555
- Maiden race horse, a race horse that has yet to win a single race
Places:
- Maiden, North Carolina, in Catawba County
- Maiden Creek, a tributary of the Schuylkill River
