virgin

CEFRB1

/ˈvɜːd͡ʒɪn/

noun · adjective

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Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

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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.
A person who has never had sexual intercourse, or (uncommonly) an animal that has never mated.
A person who has never engaged in any sexual activity at all.

In context

Every Harlot was a Virgin once.
On the other hand, the daughter of a clergyman repeatedly performed fellatio instead of genital intercourse so that she could remain a virgin.
A girl is a virgin until she experience penis-inside-vagina intercourse

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Could I convert virgins to nymphomania? Masturbators to rakehood? Faithful wives to adulteresses? Seducers to ascetics? Very doubtful. But possible.
1971, George Cockcroft aka Luke Rhinehart, The Dice Man
As the years went on she became extraordinarily effective at fellatio but, despite the fact that she was Mrs James Baylor, age 32, she was still a virgin.
1974, The New Review, Volume 1, Part Page 15
26 percent of virgin females have performed fellatio while 87 percent of nonvirgins have done so .
1992, Cosmopolitan, volume 212, page 177
middle-school girls sometimes look at oral sex as an absolute bargain - you don't get pregnant, they think you don't get diseases, you're still a virgin and you're in control
2008, College Student Journal - Volume 42, Issues 1-2 - Page 183
Shepard: Are you telling me you're a virgin? Liara: "Virgin" does not have the same connotation in my culture as in yours. But is is true I have never done this before.
2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Normandy SR-1

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From Middle English virgine, from Old French virgine, from Latin virginem, accusative of virgō. Doublet of Virgo. Displaced native Old English fǣmne.