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maid

[meyd]

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noun

a female servant.

a girl or young unmarried woman.

Archaic. a virgin.

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Origin:
1150–1200; Middle English; apocopated variant of maiden

Related forms

maid·ish, adjective

maid·ish·ness, noun

sub·maid, noun

un·der·maid, noun

Can be confused: made, maid.

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World English Dictionary

maid (meɪd)

—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 maiden]

'maidish

—*adj*

'maidishness

—n

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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

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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.

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