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Urban Dictionary Screenshot Screenshot of Urban Dictionary front page (2018) Type of site Dictionary Available in English Owner Aaron Peckham Created by Aaron Peckham URL urbandictionary.com Launched December 9, 1999 ; 25 years ago (1999-12-09) Current status Active Urban Dictionary is a crowdsourced English-language online dictionary for slang words and phrases. The website was founded in ...
It is possible that the name Imogen may have originated as an accidental or deliberate misspelling of the name Innogen, itself a possibly common Irish Gaelic name in the past, from the word 'inghean' meaning "maiden" or "girl", [1] or a British Celtic name derived from the Latin Innocentia. [2]
Iron Maiden, a British heavy metal band, often shortened to "Maiden" Maiden, the first of the three aspects of the Triple Goddess (Neopaganism) Maiden, the author abbreviation for Joseph Maiden; MaiDen, the alternative name of the fictional supercouple AlDub on a Philippine TV show; Maiden, a documentary film by Alex Holmes
Maiden over an over in which no runs are scored off the bat, and no wides or no-balls are bowled. Considered a good performance for a bowler, maiden overs are tracked as part of a bowling analysis. [1] [3] Maker's name the full face of the bat, where the manufacturer's logo is normally located.
The term Shield-maiden is a calque of the Old Norse: skjaldmær.Since Old Norse has no word that directly translates to warrior, but rather drengr, rekkr and seggr can all refer to male warrior and bragnar can mean warriors, it is problematic to say that the term meant female warrior to Old Norse speakers.
Cora is a given name with multiple origins. It was used by James Fenimore Cooper for a character in his 1826 novel The Last of the Mohicans. [1] It is today most commonly viewed as a variant name derived from the Ancient Greek Κόρη (Kórē), an epithet of the Greek goddess Persephone.
She wrote about the title character in An Algonquin Maiden by G. Mercer Adam and A. Ethelwyn Wetherald: Poor little Wanda! not only is she non-descript and ill-starred, but as usual the authors take away her love, her life, and last and most terrible of all, reputation; for they permit a crowd of men-friends of the hero to call her a "squaw ...
Emily (Emelye), the maiden whose hand cousins Arcite and Palamon compete for in The Knight's Tale; Emily Arrow, main female character in Patricia Reilly Giff’s Polk Street School series; Emily, a character in Thomas & Friends; Emily Barham, the female lead in the 1964 film The Americanization of Emily, played by Julie Andrews