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Definition: Barmaid |
BarmaidNoun1. A female bartender. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "barmaid" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Dream Interpretation | For a man to dream of a barmaid, denotes that his desires run to low pleasures, and he will scorn purity. For a young woman to dream that she is a barmaid, foretells that she will be attracted to fast men, and that she will prefer irregular pleasures to propriety. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: Barmaid |
| Specialty definitions using "barmaid": Ringing the Changes. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Barmaid" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (barmaid), Turkish (barmaid, bartender). |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Barmaid" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.62% of the time. "Barmaid" is used about 145 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 98.62% | 143 | 26,451 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.38% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 145 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "barmaid": ex-barmaid. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
barmaid | 32 |
barmaid sexy | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "barmaid"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | bufetiere, banakjere. (various references) | |
Arabic | نادلة في حانة, ساقية. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | барманка (bartender). (various references) | |
Czech | barmanka, výèepní (bartender). (various references) | |
Danish | bartender (barman, bartender). (various references) | |
Dutch | barman (barman, bartender), barkeeper (barman, bartender). (various references) | |
Finnish | tarjoilijatar (stewardess, waitress). (various references) | |
French | barmaid (barman, bartender). (various references) | |
German | bardame. (various references) | |
Greek | σερβιτόρα (parlor maid, parlour maid, waitress), σερβιτόρος κυλικείων (barman, bartender), ποτοπώλισ. (various references) | |
Hungarian | italoslány (cocktail waitress). (various references) | |
Italian | barista (barkeeper, barman, bartender). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 酌婦 (waitress). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | しゃくふ (waitress). (various references) | |
Manx | inney vaayl (handmaiden, maid), caillin lhionney, ben lhionney. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | armaidbay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | garçonete (waitress), empregada de bar, "barman" (barman, bartender). (various references) | |
Romanian | bufetierã, vânzãtoare la un bar, chelneriţã (tapster, waitress). (various references) | |
Russian | буфетчица, девушка за стойкой. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | konobarica (hebe, waitress). (various references) | |
Spanish | moza (call girl, chick, cutie, Dame, diva, gal, girl, inamorata, junior, lass, lassie, treat, waitress, wench), empleado de bar (barman, bartender), camarera (chambermaid, dressing-gown, maid, stewardess, waitress). (various references) | |
Swedish | bartender (barman, bartender), barflicka. (various references) | |
Turkish | barmaid (bartender), bar sorumlusu bayan. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | буфетниця. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | cô gái phục vụ ở quán rượu. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "barmaid": barmaids. (additional references) | |
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"Barmaid" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Aramid, barai, Bardai, barma, barmkin, Barnadi, Barnimir, Baromix, Barraud, Baumgard, Bayrami, Bearmail, Bermaldo, bimedia, Birmbaum, Birmid, Bramald, Bramfitt, Bramhald, ramraid. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-d-i-m-r" | |
-1 letter: ambari, aramid. | |
-2 letters: braid, damar, drama, maria, mbira, rabid. | |
-3 letters: abri, amia, amid, amir, aria, arid, bard, barm, bima, bird, brad, brim, darb, drab, dram, drib, iamb, maar, maid, mair, raia, raid, rami. | |
-4 letters: aba, aid, aim, air, ama, ami, arb, arm, baa, bad, bam, bar, bid, bra, dab, dam, dib, dim, mad, mar. | |
-5 letters: aa. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-b-d-i-m-r" | |
+1 letter: barmaids. | |
+2 letters: admirable, admirably, carbamide. | |
+3 letters: barramundi, carbamides, mandibular. | |
+4 letters: adumbrating, adumbration, adumbrative, barramundis, bipyramidal, chambermaid, lamebrained, liquidambar. | |
+5 letters: admirability, adumbrations, barramundies, chambermaids, dermabrasion, diagrammable, disembarrass, dramatizable, liquidambars. | |
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