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# vestal

«vestal» in Mova's school dictionary: **A vestal, or Vestal Virgin, was a priestess in ancient…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (vestals); adjective (no comparative)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A vestal, or Vestal Virgin, was a priestess in ancient Rome who kept the sacred fire of the goddess Vesta burning. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vestal/#m1)

2) Vestal means pure, chaste, as of a maiden who has given herself to a holy duty. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vestal/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in stories of ancient Rome and Greece, a priestess who must stay a maiden and tend the holy fire

### examples

- On her altar burned the never-ceasing fire, which was tended by her priestesses, the Vestal Virgins. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vestal/#x1)
- The priestesses of Vesta, called Vestales or Vestal Virgins, played a conspicuous part in these festivals. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vestal/#x2)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «vestal» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vestal/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.