What does MAID mean?

Definitions for MAID
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This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word MAID.

Princeton's WordNet

  1. maid, maidservant, housemaid, amahnoun

    a female domestic

  2. maid, maidennoun

    an unmarried girl (especially a virgin)

Wiktionary

  1. maidnoun

    A girl or an unmarried young woman; maiden.

    Note -- maid is often used in the common or species names of flowering plants.

  2. maidnoun

    A female servant or cleaner (short for maidservant).

  3. maidnoun

    A virgin of either gender.

  4. Etymology: mayde, maide, abbreviation of maiden.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Maidnoun

    A species of skate fish.

  2. MAID, MAIDENnoun

    Etymology: mæden, mægden , Saxon, maegd, Dutch.

    Your wives, your daughters,
    Your matrons, and your maids, could not fill up
    The cistern of my lust. William Shakespeare, Macbeth.

    This is a man old, wrinkl’d, faded, wither’d,
    And not a maiden, as thou say’st he is. William Shakespeare.

    I am not solely led
    By nice direction of a maiden ’s eyes. William Shakespeare.

    She employed the residue of her life to repairing of highways, building of bridges, and endowing of maidens. Carew.

    Your deluded wife had been a maid;
    Down on the bridal bed a maid she lay,
    A maid she rose at the approaching day. John Dryden, Juv.

    Let me die, she said,
    Rather than lose the spotless name of maid. Dryden.

    My maid Nerissa and myself, mean time,
    Will live as maids and widows. William Shakespeare, Merch. of Venice.

    Old Tancred visited his daughter’s bow’r;
    Her cheek, for such his custom was, he kiss’d,
    Then bless’d her kneeling, and her maids dismiss’d. Dryd.

    Her closet and the gods share all her time,
    Except when, only by some maids attended,
    She seeks some shady solitary grove. Nicholas Rowe.

    A thousand maidens ply the purple loom,
    To weave the bed, and deck the regal room. Matthew Prior.

    If she bear a maid child. Lev. xii. 5.

Wikipedia

  1. Maid

    A maid, or housemaid or maidservant, is a female domestic worker. In the Victorian era domestic service was the second largest category of employment in England and Wales, after agricultural work. In developed Western nations, full-time maids are now only found in the wealthiest households. In other parts of the world, maids remain common in urban middle-class households. "Maid" in Middle English meant an unmarried woman, especially a young one, or specifically a virgin. These meanings lived on in English until recent times (and are still familiar from literature and folk music), alongside the sense of the word as a type of servant.

ChatGPT

  1. maid

    A maid is an individual, typically female, who is employed to provide domestic assistance in tasks such as cleaning, cooking, doing laundry, and perhaps even caring for children or elderly in a household. They can be employed for a private home, a commercial establishment like a hotel, or a public institution. This term may also be referred to as a domestic worker, housekeeper, or housemaid.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Maidnoun

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

  2. Maidnoun

    a man who has not had sexual intercourse

  3. Maidnoun

    a female servant

  4. Maidnoun

    the female of a ray or skate, esp. of the gray skate (Raia batis), and of the thornback (R. clavata)

  5. Etymology: [Shortened from maiden. . See Maiden.]

Wikidata

  1. Maid

    A maid, or housemaid or maidservant, is a female person employed in domestic service. Although now usually found only in the most wealthy of households, in the Victorian era domestic service was the second largest category of employment in England and Wales, after agricultural work.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Maid

    mād, n. an unmarried woman, esp. one young: a virgin: a female servant.—ns. Maid′-child (B.), a female child; Maid′-Mā′rian, the May-queen; a character in the old Morris-dance, usually represented by a man in woman's clothes (Marian, relating to Mary or to the Virgin Mary).—adj. Maid′-pale (Shak.), pale, like a sick girl.—n. Maid′servant, a female servant.—Maid of all work, a domestic who does general housework; Old maid, a woman left unmarried: a card game. [A.S. mægdenmægeð, a maid; cf. magu, son, mǽg, may.]

Dictionary of Nautical Terms

  1. maid

    A coast name of the skate.

Suggested Resources

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British National Corpus

  1. Nouns Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'MAID' in Nouns Frequency: #2737

Anagrams for MAID »

  1. amid

  2. diam

  3. diam.

  4. admi

  5. madi

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of MAID in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of MAID in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of MAID in a Sentence

  1. Montgomery County Sheriff Rob Streck:

    At checkout time, we sent a deputy and a maid in, and as soon as we hit the door and said maid service, no one would answer, as we unlocked the door, three people – two adults and a child – were kind of pushed out the door, and the door was slammed and bolted.

  2. Marco Rubio:

    I want to tell you a story about someone that didn't speak English that well. It was my grandfather, my grandfather instilled in me the belief that I was blessed to live in the one society in all of human history where even I, the son of a bartender and a maid, could aspire to have anything, and be anything that I was willing to work hard to achieve. But he taught me that in Spanish, because it was the language he was most comfortable in.

  3. Joan Of Arc:

    It pleased God thus to act through a simple maid in order to turn back the King's enemies.

  4. Colette:

    Can it be that chance has made me one of those women so immersed in one man that, whether they are barren or not, they carry with them to the grave the shriveled innocence of an old maid?

  5. Marco Rubio:

    My father was a bartender at a hotel and my mother was a maid, the kind of people Donald Trump hires from other countries.

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Translations for MAID

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  • فتاة, خادمةArabic
  • plac'h, merc'hBreton
  • criadaCatalan, Valencian
  • služkaCzech
  • merch, rhiain, morwyn, genethWelsh
  • Dienstmädchen, MädchenGerman
  • servistinoEsperanto
  • asistenta, doncella, gata, chopa, sirvienta, empleada doméstica, chacha, señora de servicio, criada, mucama, nacha, muchacha de servicio, doméstica, cachifa, nana, señorita, muca, fregona, asesora del hogar, choleraSpanish
  • palvelustyttö, piika, neitoFinnish
  • domestique, bonne, demoiselle, servante, bonne à tout faire, jeune fille, Femme de ménageFrench
  • ainnir, cailín, maighdeanIrish
  • maighdeann, ban-òglach, òigh, gruagach, rìbhinn, ainnirScottish Gaelic
  • עלמהHebrew
  • लड़की, नौकरानीHindi
  • szobalányHungarian
  • աղախին, օրիորդArmenian
  • serviente, seniorettaInterlingua
  • bantu, babuIndonesian
  • damzeloIdo
  • signorina, camerieraItalian
  • 女中, メイド, 少女Japanese
  • 少女, 下女, 하녀, 소녀Korean
  • puellaLatin
  • कामवाली बाई, बाईMarathi
  • meisje, dienstmeid, meidDutch
  • tjenestejente, pike, stuepikeNorwegian
  • pannaPolish
  • servente, moça, empregada, donzelaPortuguese
  • горничная, дева, девушка, девица, служанкаRussian
  • biigaNorthern Sami
  • moma, djevojka, djeva, služavka, мома, девојка, sluškinja, собарица, дева, sobarica, дјевојка, дјева, служавка, слушкиња, devojka, devaSerbo-Croatian
  • jungfru, hembiträde, möSwedish
  • wafanyikazi, mfanyikaziSwahili
  • పనిపిల్ల, కన్యTelugu
  • نوکرانی, لڑکیUrdu
  • 少女, con gái, thiếu nữ, hầu gái, đầy tớ gáiVietnamese
  • 女傭Chinese

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