Handmaiden

Definitions: Handmaiden

Handmaiden

Noun

1. In a subordinate position; "theology should be the handmaiden of ethics"; "the state cannot be a servant of the church".

2. A personal maid or female attendant.

Date "handmaiden" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Specialty Definitions: Handmaiden

Domain	Definitions
19th Century Satire	A manicure. Source: Foolish Dictionary, 1904.
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Synonyms: Handmaiden

Synonyms: handmaid (n), servant (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Handmaiden

English words defined with "handmaiden": handmaid ♦ servant. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Handmaiden

Domain	Title
Books	Handmaiden in Distress: World Trade in the 1980s (reference) Handmaiden Palmyra (Black Lace) (reference) Mary, Handmaiden of the Lord (reference) (more book examples)
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Usage Frequency: Handmaiden

"Handmaiden" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Handmaiden" is used about 11 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)	100%	11	106,044

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Handmaiden

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
handmaiden	6
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Modern Translations: Handmaiden

Language		Translations for "handmaiden"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Hungarian		szolgáló (clannish, girl, maid, serving, wench), kézilány. (various references)

Manx		inney vaayl (barmaid, maid). (various references)

Pig Latin		andmaidenhay.(various references)

Romanian		slujnicã (domestic, handmaid, maid-of-all-works). (various references)

Russian		служанка (girl, lass, maid, maidservant, servant maid, servant-maid). (various references)

Welsh		gwasanaethferch (handmaid). (various references)
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Ancestral Language Translations: Handmaiden

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	famula, famulae, famulam, famulas, famulis, pedisequae, pedisequas. (various references)
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Derivations & Misspellings: Handmaiden

Derivations
	Words beginning with "handmaiden": handmaidens. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Handmaiden" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: anadamide, handmiden, Nadmidyn. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Handmaiden

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-d-d-e-h-i-m-n-n"
	-2 letters: amandine, handmade, handmaid.
	-3 letters: headman.
	-4 letters: aidman, aidmen, anadem, anemia, daimen, damned, demand, diadem, dinned, haemin, handed, hidden, madden, maenad, maiden, manned, mediad, median, medina, midden, minded.
	-5 letters: aahed, adman, admen, ahead, aided, aimed, amain, amend, amide, amine, amnia, anima, anime, daman, denim, dined, haded, hemin, henna, hided, inane, inned, maned, mania, manna, media, menad, minae, mined, naiad, named, nided.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-d-d-e-h-i-m-n-n"
	+1 letter: handmaidens.
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