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maiden voyage
noun
- the first voyage of a ship after its acceptance by the owners from the builders.
maiden voyage
noun
- nautical the first voyage of a vessel
Word History and Origins
Origin of maiden voyage1
Idioms and Phrases
The first experience, as in This tennis tournament is my maiden voyage in statewide competition . This term, originally meaning the first voyage of a ship, was first recorded in 1901, but the use of maiden to signify “the first time” dates from the mid-1500s.Example Sentences
The RMS Queen Mary made her maiden voyage from Southampton, England, to New York City.
In fact, its maiden voyage on familiar trails netted a series of both uphill and downhill PRs.
People might be surprised that during that period “Maiden Voyage,” one of your most well-loved standards, began as a TV jingle.
To some passengers a maiden voyage was a pleasure cruise; to others it meant a hope for new life.
His maiden voyage as skipper of his own ship made that reputation for the man.
He had had his fair fraction in the form of a crowd of enthusiastic friends who came to see him off on his maiden voyage.
THE ship's company was of a character befitting the greatest of all vessels and worthy of the occasion of her maiden voyage.
He has made it a custom to be a passenger on the maiden voyage of every new ship built by the White Star Line.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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