Maid

Quick meaning: Maid is a noun meaning (transitive, rare) To serve as lady's maid to, to wait upon.

Meaning

(transitive, rare) To serve as lady's maid to, to wait upon.

More Meanings

1. An adult or adolescent female servant or cleaner (short for maidservant). (In feudal times this could be anyone from a high-ranking assistant to a low-ranking cleaner.)
2. (dated or poetic) A girl or an unmarried young woman; maiden.
3. (archaic) A virgin, now female but originally one of either gender.

Example Sentences

You are betrothed both to a maid and man.

And as she did so there came to her a comfortable recollection, an incident of her long-past youth, in the days when she, then Ellen Green, had maided a dear old lady.

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.

Word Forms

• maids
• maiding
• maided

Synonyms for maid

Depending on context, synonyms include ancilla, handmaiden, lady-in-waiting, maiden, maidservant, servingmaid.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include maidservant, maiden, amah, housemaid, damsel, mademoiselle.

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