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maiden name

A woman's family name before she is married. Used of a surname that is replaced by a woman when she marries. Also called birth name.

maiden name

Noun

a woman's surname before marriage

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Noun

maiden name - a woman's surname before marriage

family name, last name, surname, cognomen - the name used to identify the members of a family (as distinguished from each member's given name)

Translations

maiden name n → apellido de soltera

maiden name n → nom m de jeune fille

maiden name maiden n → Mädchenname m

maiden name n → nome m nubile or da ragazza

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birth name
cognomen
family name
harbor
have got
hive away
hold open
keep back
keep open
last name

maiden
nee
née
salt away
save
stack away
stash away
store
surname

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Her husband is at this moment still persuaded that her maiden name was Bygrave, and that she is really the niece of a scoundrel who assisted her imposture, and whom I recognize, by the description of him, to have been Captain Wragge.

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Hetty Parlow's maiden name had been Brownon, and in Blackburg that meant more than one would think.

Can Such Things Be? by Bierce, Ambrose View in context

Margaret Ogilvy had been her maiden name, and after the Scotch custom she was still Margaret Ogilvy to her old friends.

Margaret Ogilvy by Barrie, James Matthew View in context

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