maid meaning
EN


WMaid
- A maid, or housemaid or maidservant, is a female person employed in domestic service.


- NounPLmaids
- (dated or poetic) A girl or an unmarried young woman; maiden.
- Note - maid is often used in the common or species names of flowering plants.
- A female servant or cleaner (short for maidservant).
- She was a fat, round little woman, richly apparelled in velvet and lace, […]; and the way she laughed, cackling like a hen, the way she talked to the waiters and the maid, […]—all these unexpected phenomena impelled one to hysterical mirth, and made one class her with such immortally ludicrous types as Ally Sloper, the Widow Twankey, or Miss Moucher.
- (archaic) A virgin of either gender.
- (dated or poetic) A girl or an unmarried young woman; maiden.
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- John's a maid fetishist. Maid outfits really turn him on.
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- The only card games I know are Go Fish and Old Maid.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of maid in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Nouns
- Countable nouns
- Countable nouns
- Nouns
- en maiden
- en maids
- en maidenhead
- en maidservant
- en maidan
Source: Wiktionary

