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hand·maid    Audio Help   [hand-meyd] Pronunciation Key
–noun
1.something that is necessarily subservient or subordinate to another: Ceremony is but the handmaid of worship.
2.a female servant or attendant.
Also, handmaiden.


[Origin: 1350–1400; ME; see hand, maid]
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hand·maid    Audio Help   (hānd'mād')  Pronunciation Key 
n.  
  1. A woman attendant or servant.
  2. often handmaiden Something that accompanies or is attendant on another: "the traditional notion that government was the handmaiden of business" (Doris Kearns Goodwin).

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Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
handmaid 
1382, from hand (in the sense in close at hand) + maid. Cf. O.E. handþrgn "personal attendant."

Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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handmaid

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 

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Handmaid

Hand"maid"\, Handmaiden \Hand"maiden\, n. A maid that waits at hand; a female servant or attendant.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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