Usually means: Chaste woman dedicated to Vesta.
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General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. vestal: Merriam-Webster
  2. vestal: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. vestal: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. vestal: Collins English Dictionary
  5. vestal: Vocabulary.com
  6. Vestal, vestal: Wordnik
  7. Vestal, vestal: Wiktionary
  8. vestal: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. vestal: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. vestal: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. vestal: Dictionary.com
  12. vestal (adj.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. The Vestal, Vestal (disambiguation), Vestal: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Vestal: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. vestal: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. vestal: Rhymezone
  17. Vestal: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. vestal: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. vestal: FreeDictionary.org
  20. vestal: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. vestal: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. An Etymological Dictionary of Classical Mythology (No longer online)

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  1. vestal: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. vestal: A Word A Day

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. vestal: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Vestal: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Vestal)

adjective:  Of or pertaining to Vesta, the virgin goddess of the hearth.
adjective:  Pure; chaste.
noun:  A virgin consecrated to Vesta, and to the service of watching the sacred fire, which was to be perpetually kept burning upon her altar; a vestal virgin.
noun:  A female virgin; a woman who has never had sexual relations.
noun:  A nun.
adjective:  (astronomy) Synonym of Vestan (Pertaining to the asteroid Vesta)
adjective:  (mythology) Alternative form of vestal (Pertaining to the goddess Vesta) [Of or pertaining to Vesta, the virgin goddess of the hearth.]

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