девица | |
gen. | maiden; hussy; miss; young woman |
humor. | damsel |
law | spinster |
law Makarov. | spinstress |
obs. | pucelle |
obs. humor. | damoisel |
poetic | maid |
который | |
gen. | who |
никому | |
inf. | few |
не отказываться | |
gen. | retain |
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maiden; hussy; miss; young woman; girl; demoiselle; a young lady; virgin | |||
damsel; popsy ("Seeing the popsy bathed in tears, he quivered from stem to stern." (P.G. Wodehouse) ART Vancouver) | |||
spinster | |||
spinstress | |||
unmarried woman | |||
pucelle; agamist | |||
damoisel; damoiselle | |||
maid | |||
damosel | |||
piece of goods (Taras) | |||
wench | |||
celibate | |||
young thing (if you live in Russia, you have been certainly called on the phone by a chipper young thing excitedly telling you: У нас идёт акция – купите три окна, и четвёртое – бесплатно! –We're running a special promotion: buy three windows and get the fourth one free! (Michele Berdy)) |
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Agriculture | 2 |
American usage, not spelling | 1 |
Archaic | 2 |
Botany | 6 |
Cinematography | 1 |
Education | 4 |
Fairy tales | 1 |
Figurative | 3 |
Folklore | 3 |
General | 71 |
Historical | 3 |
Informal | 12 |
Literature | 6 |
Makarov | 20 |
Obsolete / dated | 1 |
Pompous | 6 |
Proverb | 2 |
Scotland | 1 |
Slang | 5 |
Vulgar | 2 |