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Webster 1913 Edition
Maid
1.
An unmarried woman; usually, a young unmarried woman; esp., a girl; a virgin; a maiden.
Would I had died a
And never seen thee, never borne thee son.
maid
,And never seen thee, never borne thee son.
Shakespeare
Can a
maid
forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? Yet my people have forgotten me. Jer. ii. 32.
2.
A man who has not had sexual intercourse.
[Obs.]
Christ was a
maid
and shapen as a man. Chaucer.
3.
A female servant.
Spinning amongst her
maids
. Shakespeare
☞ Maid is used either adjectively or in composition, signifying female, as in maid child, maidservant.
4.
(Zool.)
The female of a ray or skate, esp. of the gray skate (
Raia batis
), and of the thornback (Raia clavata
). [Prov. Eng.]
Webster 1828 Edition
Maid
MAID
,Noun.
Definition 2024
Maid
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See also: Maid
English
Noun
maid (plural maids)
- (dated or poetic) A girl or an unmarried young woman; maiden.
- A female servant or cleaner (short for maidservant).
- 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 2, in The Mirror and the Lamp:
- She was a fat, round little woman, richly apparelled in velvet and lace, […]; and the way she laughed, cackling like a hen, the way she talked to the waiters and the maid, […]—all these unexpected phenomena impelled one to hysterical mirth, and made one class her with such immortally ludicrous types as Ally Sloper, the Widow Twankey, or Miss Moucher.
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- (archaic) A virgin of either gender.
- 1380+, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales
- Crist was a mayde and shapen as a man.
- 1601, William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
- You are betrothed both to a maid and man.
- 1380+, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales
Synonyms
- (young female person): damsel, maiden
- (female servant): handmaiden, lady-in-waiting, maidservant
- (female cleaner): chambermaid (in a hotel), charlady (in a house), charwoman (in a house)
Translations
young female
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female servant or cleaner
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See also
Anagrams
Cebuano
Etymology
From English maid, Middle English mayde, maide, abbreviation of maiden. Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *magaþs (“maid, virgin”).
Noun
maid
- A female servant or cleaner; a maidservant, a housemaid.
Synonyms
Veps
Etymology
Related to Finnish maito.
Noun
maid
Inflection
| Inflection of maid | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative sing. | maid | ||
| genitive sing. | maidon | ||
| partitive sing. | maidod | ||
| partitive plur. | maidoid | ||
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | maid | maidod | |
| accusative | maidon | maidod | |
| genitive | maidon | maidoiden | |
| partitive | maidod | maidoid | |
| essive-instructive | maidon | maidoin | |
| translative | maidoks | maidoikš | |
| inessive | maidos | maidoiš | |
| elative | maidospäi | maidoišpäi | |
| illative | ? | maidoihe | |
| adessive | maidol | maidoil | |
| ablative | maidolpäi | maidoilpäi | |
| allative | maidole | maidoile | |
| abessive | maidota | maidoita | |
| comitative | maidonke | maidoidenke | |
| prolative | maidodme | maidoidme | |
| approximative I | maidonno | maidoidenno | |
| approximative II | maidonnoks | maidoidennoks | |
| egressive | maidonnopäi | maidoidennopäi | |
| terminative I | ? | maidoihesai | |
| terminative II | maidolesai | maidoilesai | |
| terminative III | maidossai | — | |
| additive I | ? | maidoihepäi | |
| additive II | maidolepäi | maidoilepäi | |
Derived terms
- hapanmaid
- pihtimaid
- rahtmaid
- maidnedal'
References
- Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007), “молоко”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika