unmarried woman vs old maid

unmarried woman and old maid both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
unmarried woman	Yes	No	No	No
old maid	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, old maid is a hyponym of unmarried woman; that is, old maid is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than unmarried woman:

unmarried woman: a woman who is not married
old maid: an elderly unmarried woman

Other hyponyms of unmarried woman include signorina, spinster.

unmarried woman (noun)	old maid (noun)
a woman who is not married	a card game using a pack of cards from which one queen has been removed; players match cards and the player holding the unmatched queen at the end of the game is the loser (or `old maid')
	an elderly unmarried woman
	the loser in a game of old maid
	commonly cultivated Old World woody herb having large pinkish to red flowers
	any of various plants of the genus Zinnia cultivated for their variously and brightly colored flower heads

unmarried woman vs old maid

unmarried woman and old maid both are nouns.

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