Definitions for Maid
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Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. maid, maidservant, housemaid, amah(noun)

   a female domestic

2. maid, maiden(noun)

   an unmarried girl (especially a virgin)

Wiktionary(4.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. maid(Noun)

   A girl or an unmarried young woman; maiden.

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

   Etymology: mayde, maide, abbreviation of maiden.

2. maid(Noun)

   A female servant or cleaner (short for maidservant).

   Etymology: mayde, maide, abbreviation of maiden.

3. maid(Noun)

   A virgin of either gender.

   Etymology: mayde, maide, abbreviation of maiden.

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Maid(noun)

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

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

2. Maid(noun)

   a man who has not had sexual intercourse

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

3. Maid(noun)

   a female servant

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

4. Maid(noun)

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

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

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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(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

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. mægden—mægeð, a maid; cf. magu, son, mǽg, may.]

Dictionary of Nautical Terms(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. maid

   A coast name of the skate.

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1. Maid

   1. Short form for maiden.

   Maid is short form for maiden.

   Submitted by anahid.ashraf on January 11, 2021  

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1. MAID

   What does MAID stand for? -- Explore the various meanings for the MAID acronym on the Abbreviations.com website.

British National Corpus

1. Nouns Frequency

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

Anagrams for Maid »

1. amid, diam, diam.

How to pronounce Maid?

1. 

   Alex

   US English

   

   Daniel

   British

   

   Karen

   Australian

   

   Veena

   Indian

How to say Maid in sign language?

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. Joan Of Arc:

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

2. V. P. Skipper:

   A kiss To a young girl, faith to a married woman, hope to an old maid, charity.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. 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?

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