lose one's virginity

English

Pronunciation

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Verb

lose one's virginity (third-person singular simple present loses one's virginity, present participle losing one's virginity, simple past and past participle lost one's virginity)

1. (idiomatic) To have sexual intercourse for the first time.
   • 2017 September 27, David Browne, “Hugh Hefner, 'Playboy' Founder, Dead at 91”, in Rolling Stone:

     Born in Chicago on April 9th, 1926, he was the son of Methodists, served as a noncombatant in World War II, earned a bachelor's degree in psychology at the University of Illinois and didn't lose his virginity until he was 22.

Synonyms

• pop the cherry

Coordinate terms

• virginity, chaste, chastity, virgin

Translations

to stop being a virgin after the first sexual intercourse

• Armenian: կուսությունը կորցնել (kusutʻyunə korcʻnel)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 失去童貞 / 失去童贞 (shīqù tóngzhēn), 失身 (zh) (shīshēn)

• Finnish: menettää neitsyytensä
• French: perdre sa virginité
• German: seine/ihre Jungfräulichkeit verlieren
• Japanese: (woman's virginity) 処女を失う (shojo o ushinau), 女になる (onna ni naru), (man's virginity) 童貞を失う (dōtei o ushinau)
• Polish: tracić dziewictwo impf, stracić dziewictwo pf
• Russian: потеря́ть де́вственность pf (poterjátʹ dévstvennostʹ)
• Spanish: debutar (es), perder la virginidad
• Swedish: förlora sin oskuld