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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