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A 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, North Carolina is a town in the United States.
- A beheading device, see maiden (beheading).
- The first of the three aspects of the Triple Goddess
- Iron Maiden, a heavy metal band which also greatly influenced what is now known as power metal.
- "new, fresh, first" (for example maiden voyage and maiden speech (also called "first speech")), a figurative sense first recorded 1555.
- A winless maiden race horse
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