Maid

Definition: Maid

Maid

Noun

1. A female domestic.

2. An unmarried girl (especially a virgin).

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

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

Occupations

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MAID

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Synonyms: Maid

Amusement

Cards, card games; whist, rubber; round game; loo, cribbage, besique, euchre, drole, ecarte, picquet, allfours, quadrille, omber, reverse, Pope Joan, commit; boston, boaston; blackjack, twenty-one, vingtun; quinze, thirty-one, put, speculation, connections, brag, cassino, lottery, commerce, snip-snap-snoren, lift smoke, blind hookey, Polish bank, Earl of Coventry, Napoleon, patience, pairs; banker; blind poker, draw poker, straight poker, stud poker; bluff, bridge, bridge whist; lotto, monte, three-card monte, nap, penny-ante, poker, reversis, squeezers, old maid, fright, beggar-my-neighbor; baccarat.

Celibacy

Unmarried woman, spinster; maid, maiden;virgin, feme sole, old maid; bachelor girl, girl-bachelor; nun.

Friend

Best man, maid of honor, matron of honor.

Infant

Girl; lass, lassie; wench, miss, damsel, demoiselle; maid, maiden; virgin; hoyden.

Servant

Maid, maidservant; handmaid; confidente, lady's maid, abigail, soubrette; amah, biddy, nurse, bonne, ayah; nursemaid, nursery maid, house maid, parlor maid, waiting maid, chamber maid, kitchen maid, scullery maid; femme de chambre, femme fille; camarista; chef de cuisine,cordon bleu, cook, scullion, Cinderella; potwalloper; maid of all work, servant of all work; laundress, bedmaker; journeyman, charwoman; (worker); bearer, chokra, gyp, hamal, scout.

Warfare

Phrase: the battle rages; a la guerre comme a la guerre; bis peccare in bello non licet; jus gladii; "my voice is still for war"; "'tis well that war is so terrible, otherwise we might grow fond of it"; "my sentence is for open war"; "pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war"; "the cannons have their bowels full of wrath"; "the cannons..spit forth their iron indignation"; "the fire-eyed maid of smoky war"; silent leges inter arma; si vis pacem para bellum.

Crosswords: Maid

German (damsel, maid, maiden, wench).

Umm, which of you has domestic experience? Ja, on second thought, I don't really want someone else's maid. All those annoying habits I'd have to undo (Schindler's List; writing credit: Steven Zaillian)

Wonderful But tomorrow morning, if you should wake out of your dreams and hear a knock, and the door opens, and there, instead of a maid with a breakfast tray, stands a policeman with a warrant, then you'll be glad you are alone (Trouble in Paradise; writing credit: Aladar Laszlo; Grover Jones)

$40? I pay my maid $60, she doesn't do my laundry, and I'm gettin' nothing (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt)

I am an old maid, a frozen asset (The Women; writing credit: Anita Loos)

I'm out with an old maid. (Thank God It's Friday; writing credit: Armyan Bernstein)

While his father pulls the maid, (A Well Respected Man; performing artist: The Kinks)

Maid of dishoner (The Difference; performing artist: The Wallflowers)

Hand Maid May (2001)

Bar Maid (1970)

Liebe Maid und mache Komm (1969)

Maid in Sweden (1969)

The Matchmaker Red Maid (1958)

Meter Maid (performing artist: Galactic)

Weaver and the Factory Maid (performing artist: Steeleye Span)

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Books

• A Man with a Maid Vol.'s I, II, III (reference)

• Jane and the Stillroom Maid (reference)

• Maid in Waiting (reference)

• Maid of Killarney (reference)

• Quest for a Maid (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Maid to Order (reference)

• Maid Marian and Her Merry Men: How the Band Got Together (reference)

• The Old Maid (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• A Maid in Bedlam (reference)

• Maid in Manhattan [SOUNDTRACK] (reference)

• There Was a Maid (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• SCHOOL ZONE Flash Action Software -- Old Maid for Windows and Macintos (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

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[A maid at the Nurses' Home, New Orleans, La.]. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Ship's Sponsor, Miss Anna Hoch, with her parents and Maid of Honor at the launching ceremonies, 12 August 1905. Kansas was built by the New York Shipbuilding Corp. at Camden, New Jersey. Those present are (from left to right): Miss Ora Allen, Maid of Honor; Mrs. E.W. Hoch, mother of the Sponsor; Miss Anna Hoch; and The Honorable E.W. Hoch, Governor of Kansas and father of the Sponsor. Credit: NAVY.

Sponsor and official party at the ship's launching ceremonies, Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, Maine, 19 June 1951. Present in the front row are (left to right): Miss Marsha G. O'Kane, Maid of Honor; Mrs. Richard H. O'Kane, Sponsor; and Commander Richard H. O'Kane, USN, former Commanding Officer of the first USS Tang (SS-306). Credit: NAVY.

Liberty, the fair maid of Kansas--in the hands of the "border ruffians". Credit: Library of Congress.

Maid bringing card to people having tea; two children on the floor playing. Credit: Library of Congress.

The jonquil maid. Credit: Library of Congress.

I wish somebody would tell me why I can never keep a maid!. Credit: Library of Congress.

Comical scene showing maid sitting on man's lap kissing him as his wife watches. Credit: Library of Congress.

The old maid. Credit: Library of Congress.

The Nubble, Maid of the sea, York vicinity, Me. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Kitty, a fair but frozen maid.

Such lovely flowers, and of forms so entirely new to me, were not to be abandoned at the bidding of any little maid, however imperious

The poor, good old woman was a maid.

A maid in a white cap and apron was watering a box of plants on a sill which shone like a slab of limestone in the warm glare

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Business

Home service franchises (cleaning, maid services, lawn care, house-minding, etc.) are likely to feature here, as are childcare and child development services. (references)

Economic History

Argentina

Jobs that require some degree of English range from maid service at major hotels, to positions at multinational financial and consulting institutions. (references)

Uae

Currently, franchises are operating in fast foods; dine-in restaurants; auto leasing; apparel; soft drink bottling; beauty products; hotels; toys; photography; jewelry; vending machines; dry cleaning; furniture; hardware stores; office supplies; natural health products; publications; quick printing; garden care and florists; sporting goods; retail/convenience stores; maid and personal services. (references)

Travel

Honduras

Domestic maid services are also available at a relatively low cost. (references)

Women

Kuwait

The maid suffered permanent damage to her face, neck, ears, and arms. (references)

Kuwait

In November an Asian maid committed suicide by burning herself to death. (references)

Kuwait

The employers who beat to death their Sri Lankan maid in August 1999 remained in jail awaiting trial at year's end. (references)

Worker Rights

Morocco

Responses to cases of child maid abuse vary depending on the situation. (references)

Madagascar

In March a couple in France was arrested in connection with an alleged case of modern slavery involving their 21-year-old Malagasy maid. (references)

Singapore

Contracts often stipulate that, even when she is ostensibly not working, a maid must remain on the premises except for official duties or on her day off. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "maid": Cuckoo maid ♦ Fair maid ♦ golden maid ♦ kitchen maid ♦ lady's maid ♦ maid in waiting ♦ Maid Marian ♦ maid of honor ♦ maid of honour ♦ maid servant ♦ maid service ♦ mature maid ♦ meter maid ♦ old maid ♦ old maid flower ♦ parlor maid ♦ parlour maid ♦ pretty maid ♦ room maid ♦ scullery maid ♦ servant maid ♦ serving maid ♦ waiting maid. Additional references.

Beginning with "maid": maid-child, maid-cum-housekeeper, maid-of-all-work, maid-of-all-work-cum-nursemaid, maid-of-all-works, maid-servant, maid-servants, maid-turned-chanteuse.

Ending with "maid": kennel-maid, serving-maid.

Containing "maid": hand-maid-cum-companion, once-aboard-the-lugger-and-the-maid-is-mine.

Afrikaans

bediende (attendant, boy, servant). (various references)

Albanian

virgjëreshë (maiden, virgin), vajzë (babe, chicken, child, colleen, damsel, daughter, demoiselle, female, gal, girl, girlie, lass, lassie, maiden, Miss, petticoat, puss, unmarried girl, wench), shërbyese (dogsbody, girl, help, maidservant, nurse, slavey, stewardess, wench, woman), çupë (lass, maiden). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فتاة (babe, baby, bird, bud, filly, gill, girl, lass, nymph, pigeon, wench, young woman), ‏وصيفة (companion, female servant, maidservant), ‏خادمة (bedder, charwoman, girl, help, maidservant, servant, servant maid, skivvy, slavey, wench, woman), ‏البكر, ‏آنسة (damsel, girl, miss, ms., young lady). (various references)

Bulgarian 

мома (damsel, lass, maiden, virgin), домашна прислужница (domestic, maidservant, servant maid), девойка (adolescent, damsel, girl, lass, maiden, young lady), девица (maiden, virgin). (various references)

Catalan

criada (servant). (various references)

Chinese 

侍女 , 佣人, 女佣 . (various references)

Czech

služka (servant maid), sleèna (damsel, lady, Miss, young lady), pokojská (chambermaid), panna (doll, virgin, Virgo). (various references)

Danish

tjener (At your service!, attendant, boy, servant, waiter), stuepige (room maid). (various references)

Dutch

meid (girl, lass, servant, wench), dienstmeisje (servant), dienares (servant). (various references)

Esperanto

servistino (servant), ĉambristino. (various references)

Faeroese

arbeiðskona (servant). (various references)

Farsi 

پیشخدمت مونث , دوشیزه یازن جوان , دختر (Daughter, Gal, Girl, Girlie, Lass, Quean, Sissified, Sissy, Wench). (various references)

Finnish

palvelustyttö, palvelija (domestic, servant), neito (girl), neitinen (girl), impi (virgin). (various references)

French

servante (maidservant, servant maid), femme de chambre (room maid), domestique (man). (various references)

Frisian

keamerfaam, faam (bride, fame, fiancée, hearsay, renown, repute, rumor, rumour, servant, virgin). (various references)

German

Zimmermädchen (chambermaid, parlormaid, parlourmaid), dienstmädchen (maidservant, servant, slavey), Zofe (abigail, lady in waiting, lady's maid), mädchen (colleen, female, girl, girlie, girls, lass, lassie, maiden, maids, slavey, wench, wenches). (various references)

Greek 

κόρη (colleen, damsel, daughter, girl, lassie, maiden, wench), καμαρίερα, νεάνισ, υπηρέτρια (handmaid, maid servant, servant, servant girl, servant maid, wench), θαλαμηπόλοσ (chambermaid, manservant, valet). (various references)

Hebrew 

משרתת (maidservant), עלמ�" (damsel, lass, maiden, young woman), עוזרת (housemaid, maidservant), אמ�" (maidservant), בתול�" (maiden, virgin, virgo), � ער�" (girl, kitten, lass, lassie, maiden). (various references)

Hungarian

szolgáló (clannish, girl, handmaiden, serving, wench), hajadon (celibatarian, celibate, discovert, feme sole, fille, maiden, out of wedlock, single woman, spinster, to lead a single life, unmarried, unwed), fiatal lány (bit of stuff, flapper, nymph, quean, rabbit, wench, young girl). (various references)

Indonesian

perawan (damsel, flapper, virgin), pelayan wanita, gadis (damsel, flapper, girl, maiden, virgin). (various references)

Italian

cameriera (chambermaid, dresser, housemaid, waitress). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

侍女 (lady attendant). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

おてつ� いさ�", おてつ� い (help), メード , そばづかえ (personal attendant, valet), かせいふ (housekeeper), �"まづかい, あま (amah, bitch, fisherman, flax, hemp, linen, nun, woman shell diver), じょちゅう, じじょ (authors preface, autobiography, boys and girls, lady attendant, order, second daughter, self-help, system, thou, you). (various references)

Korean 

하녀. (various references)

Malay

pelayan (attendant, servant), babu (servant). (various references)

Manx

inney vaayl (barmaid, handmaiden), inneen veyl, caillin (colleen, girl, lass, waitress, young woman), ben aeg (girl, Miss, young woman). (various references)

Norwegian

værelsepike, stuepike, kammerpike, hushjelp (servant). (various references)

Papiamen

kriá (attendant, servant). (various references)

Pig Latin

aidmay.(various references)

Portuguese

criada (bint, chambermaid, girl, help, housemaid, jade, lady's maid, maidservant, servant, servant-maid, skivvy). (various references)

Portuguese Brazilian

camareira. (various references)

Romanian

servitoare (charwoman, daily, girl servant, help, housemaid, lass, maid servant, maid-of-all-works, servant, slavey), fecioarã (maiden, virgin, Virgo), fatã în casã (housemaid, maid servant, maid-of-all-work, maid-of-all-works, parlor maid, parlour maid, servant girl), fatã (child, chit, damsel, daughter, girl, lass, lassie, maiden, Miss, puss, skirt, virgin). (various references)

Russian 

служанка;девушка;горничная, служанка (girl, handmaiden, lass, maidservant, servant maid, servant-maid), горничная (chambermaid, housemaid, lady's maid, lady's-maid, parlormaid, parlourmaid, stewardess), прислуга (help, maidservant, skivvy), девушка (a bit of muslin, bint, colleen, demoiselle, dish, gal, girl, lady, lass, lassie, maiden, puss, quean, wench). (various references)

Scottish

maighdean (a maiden, maiden, virgin). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

usedelica (old maid, spinster), sobarica (chambermaid), služavka (ayah, bonne, housemaid, kitchen maid, lady's maid, servant maid, slavey), devojka (chick, damsel, demoiselle, girl, girlfriend, lassie, maiden, wench). (various references)

Spanish

criada (gal, girl, help, housemaid, maidservant, servant), sirvienta (chambermaid). (various references)

Swedish

tjänsteflicka (maidservant), jungfru (beetle, deadeye, maiden, virgin), hembiträde (servant girl). (various references)

Thai

สาวใช้, สาวโส�" (maiden). (various references)

Turkish

temizlikçi kadın (charlady, charwoman), kız (babe, bird, bunny, chick, chicken, colleen, daughter, female, gal, girl, Jenny, lass, lassie, maiden, Miss, queen, wench), hizmetçi kız (girl, servant girl, tweeny, waiting girl), hizmetçi (charwoman, domestic, domestic help, domestic servant, factotum, handmaid, help, helper, housemaid, maidservant, menial, servant, servant maid, server, servitor, skivvy, slavey, waiting girl, waiting maid), bâkire (maiden). (various references)

Ukrainian

служниця (girl, lass, maidservant, parlourmaid). (various references)

Vietnamese 

thiếu nữ đầy tớ gái, người hầu gái (ayah, maidservant, servant-girl, servant-maid, waiting-maid, waiting-woman), con gái (cummer, daughter, frail, petticoat, skirt). (various references)

Welsh

morwyn (virgin), bun (maiden). (various references)

geme. (various references)

abra, abrae, abrahae, abram, abramus, ancilla, ancillae, ancillam, ancillamque, ancillas, ancillasque, ancillis, ancula, famula, famulae, famulam, famulas, famulis. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "maid": maiden, maidenhair, maidenhairs, maidenhead, maidenheads, maidenhood, maidenhoods, maidenliness, maidenlinesses, maidenly, maidens, maidhood, maidhoods, maidish, maids, maidservant, maidservants. (additional references)

Words ending with "maid": barmaid, bondmaid, bridesmaid, chambermaid, dairymaid, handmaid, housemaid, mermaid, milkmaid, nursemaid. (additional references)

Words containing "maid": barmaids, bondmaids, bridesmaids, chambermaids, dairymaids, handmaiden, handmaidens, handmaids, housemaids, mermaids, milkmaids, nursemaids. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Maid" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: amaid, amet, amida, amild, emaid, Imadi, jaid, kaid, macd, macid, madi, Madida, madin, madir, madiz, Maef, Magd, mahd, Mahida, Mahidol, Mahit, maic, maide, maido, Maif, maip, mair, maird, mais, mait, maix, maiz, Majd, maji, mald, mand, maoi, mapic, mard, mativ, maux, mavi, mawi, mayde, mayed, medi, Merid, Mfid, miad, miai, miak, Miao, miar, miau, miaz, Mida, mii, miii, miud, Mji, Mkiv, moid, Msai, Msida, Mudi, muid, mvic, myarid, Mzi, nacid, niad, Xmai, yaid. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: amid.

-1 letter: aid, aim, ami, dam, dim, mad, mid.

-2 letters: ad, ai, am, id, ma, mi.

+1 letter: admit, admix, aimed, amide, amido, amids, maids, media.

+2 letters: admire, admits, admixt, aidman, aidmen, amides, amidic, amidin, amidol, amidst, aramid, cadmic, daimen, daimio, daimon, daimyo, degami, diadem, diamin, diatom, digamy, dirham, disarm, dismal, dismay, domain, imaged, maiden, mailed, maimed, mantid, masjid, mediad, mediae, medial, median, medias, medina, midair, midday, midway, mikado, miladi, milady, misadd, modica, myriad, radium, sadism.