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noun
1.
a female servant.
2.
a girl or young unmarried woman.
3.
Archaic. a virgin.
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Maid
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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World English Dictionary
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| —n | |
| 1. | archaic, literary or a young unmarried girl; maiden |
| 2. | a. a female servant |
| b. (in combination): a housemaid | |
| 3. | a spinster |
| [C12: shortened form of | |
| 'maidish | |
| —adj | |
| 'maidishness | |
| —n | |
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Etymonline
Word Origin & History
maid
c.1175, "a virgin, a young unmarried woman," shortening of maiden (q.v.). Like that word, used in M.E. of unmarried men as well as women. Domestic help sense is from 1390, from sense in maidservant (1526). In ref. to Joan of Arc, attested from 1548 (cf. Fr. la Pucelle). Maid
Marian, one of Robin Hood's companions, first recorded c.1525, perhaps from Fr., where Robin et Marian have been stock names for country lovers since 13c. Maid of Honor (c.1586) originally was "unmarried lady of noble birth who attends a queen or princess;" meaning "principal bridesmaid" is attested from 1895.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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Example sentences
But differences in financial status are not all that drives the maid trade.
And then the maid starts telling stories within the illusions.
Another maid stood behind my chair, leaning over the table and waving a fan back and forth to drive off any flies.
The kitchen and maid's bedroom have been reconfigured.
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