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maid
[meyd]
noun
a female domestic employee who cleans tourist accommodations or does cleaning or other housework in a home.
a hotel maid.
a female domestic servant with any of various duties, especially in a large house (often used in combination).
a kitchen maid who assisted the cook; a handmaid; a lady’s maid; a nursery maid.
Archaic.a girl or young unmarried woman.
Archaic.a female virgin.
maid
/ ɪ /
noun
archaica young unmarried girl; maiden
a female servant
( in combination )
a housemaid
a spinster
Other 51Թ Forms
- maidish adjective
- maidishness noun
- submaid noun
- undermaid noun
- ˈ徱 adjective
- ˈ徱ness noun
51Թ History and Origins
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of maid1
Example Sentences
Like Black actors who played maids but employed Black “help” in real life.
My dad was divorced, and my mom was an old maid by Belarusian standards.
While Agathe initially identifies with the wilting old maid Anne from “Persuasion,” her shyly budding connection with Oliver is more Elizabeth Bennet in “Pride and Prejudice.”
Lydia Mugambe was studying for a PhD in law at the University of Oxford when officers discovered she had a young woman at her home carrying out unpaid work as a maid and nanny.
Amelia enters the Holmes manse through the servants’ entrance — this might be a novel addition to 221B — and, owing to the recent dismemberment of Holmes’ scullery maid, is mistakenly hustled into the vacant job.
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