Maid

Word MAID
Character 4
Hyphenation maid
Pronunciations /meɪd/

Definitions and meanings of "Maid"

What do we mean by maid?

An unmarried girl or woman. noun

A woman or girl who is a virgin. noun

A housemaid or chambermaid. noun

A woman servant. noun

A young unmarried woman; a girl; specifically, a girl of marriageable age, but applied, usually with little or some other qualifying term, to a female child of any age above infancy: as, a maid, or a little maid, of ten summers. noun

A woman, especially a young woman, who has preserved her virginity; a virgin. noun

A man who has always remained continent. noun

A female servant or attendant charged with domestic duties: usually with a specific designation, as a housemaid, chambermaid, nurse-maid, a maid of all work, etc. See the compounds, and phrases below. noun

One of various fishes. The female of several species of skate. noun

The thornback ray. Also called maiden and maidenskate. noun

The twait-shad. noun

The wryneck, Iynx torquilla. noun

A sort of cheesecake. noun

A game of cards played by any number of persons with a pack of fifty-one cards, one of the queens being thrown out; all cards that match are discarded, and that player in whose hand the odd queen is finally left is said to be caught, and doomed to be an old maid (or bachelor). noun

The lapwing: from the fancy that old maids are changed into these uneasy birds after death. noun

The common clam, Mya arenaria. noun

To do the work of a maid: usually referring to a lady's-maid.

An unmarried woman; usually, a young unmarried woman; esp., a girl; a virgin; a maiden. noun

A girl or an unmarried young woman; maiden.

A female servant or cleaner (short for maidservant).

A virgin, now female but originally one of either gender.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Maid

The word "maid" in example sentences

Enter a maid, gazing at a mango branch, and behind her, a second_.) _First maid_. ❋ Kalidasa (N/A)

The children ask their mother when "auntie" - what they called the maid, is coming back. ❋ Justinker (2005)

Got my truck washed too in case they need it for some reason as the maid is always getting me to take her somewhere. ❋ Unknown (2003)

What a man with a good horse, and good wine, and good tobacco, wanteth a wife for, passeth my understanding, but I know thou art young, and the maid is a fair one. ❋ Unknown (1900)

- Her "maid" is poor Kirkcaldy Helen, one of the notabilities, and also blessings here; who staid with us (thanks chiefly, almost wholly, to the admirable/management/) for nearly twelve years on a stretch. ❋ Unknown (1893)

"I was ironing and one of the little girl's dresses got burned," says Daya*, a Sri Lankan woman working as a live-in maid for a wealthy family in Kuwait. ❋ Catholic Relief Services (2010)

Little wonder that Elomire's maid is nearly mute; grotesque corruption can leave one speechless. ❋ Fern Siegel (2010)

The maid is supposedly planning "to tell how she suffered as a long-time, Latina household employee in Meg Whitman's home." ❋ The Huffington Post News Team (2010)

Our maid is 4 months pregnant and has complications where she needs to rest (actually lie down most of the time) and cannot work. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Does Gregory think working as a maid is demeaning? ❋ Unknown (2010)

But when they refer to the maid of Desdemona's mother, the text reads "Barbarie"—a nickname, like Barb'ry or, in Samuel Pepys's Diary, Barbary Allen, of the old Scottish folksong. ❋ David Littlejohn (2011)

The gist of this cinematic gem is that an ordinary family wins a rather unordinary prize -- a smart house, complete with a holographic live-in maid who does everything from cleaning to cooking to mothering this single-parent family. ❋ Katie Hawkes (2010)

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