A female anchorite. A woman who chooses to withdraw from the world to live a solitary life of prayer and contemplation.
An anchorwoman.
A nun.
A female virgin; a woman who has never had sexual relations.
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.
Of or pertaining to Vesta, the virgin goddess of the hearth.
Pure; chaste.