Definition of 'maid'

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maid

(meɪd   )
Word forms: maids
countable noun
A maid is a woman who works as a servant in a hotel or private house.
A maid brought me breakfast at nine o'clock.  
Synonyms: servant, chambermaid, housemaid, abigail   More Synonyms of maid
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maid in American English

(meɪd   )
noun
1. 
a.  Chiefly Literary
a girl or young unmarried woman
b.  Obsolete
a virgin
2.  Rare
old maid
3. 
a girl or woman servant: often in compounds
barmaid, housemaid
Idioms:
the Maid
Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.
Word origin
ME maide, contr. < maiden

maid in American English

(meid)
noun
1. 
a female servant
2. 
a girl or young unmarried woman
3. archaic
a virgin
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Derived forms
maidish
adjective
maidishness
noun
Word origin
[1150–1200; ME; apocopated var. of maiden]

maid in British English

(meɪd   )
noun
1.  archaic or literary
a young unmarried girl; maiden
2. 
a. 
a female servant
b. 
(in combination)
a housemaid
3. 
a spinster
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Derived forms
maidish (ˈmaidish)
adjective
maidishness (ˈmaidishness)
noun
Word origin
C12: shortened form of maiden

maid in Hospitality

(meɪd)
Word forms: (regular plural) maids
noun
(Hospitality (hotel): Hotel personnel)
A maid is a woman who works as a servant in a hotel.
A maid brought breakfast at nine o'clock.
Maids clean your room each day of your stay.
It is customary to tip the maids at the end of your stay.
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Examples of 'maid' in a sentence
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She had been due to be maid of honour.
The Sun (2016)
We had a palatial house and a maid.
Bachmann, Susan (editor) & Barth, Melinda Between Worlds: A Reader, Rhetoric and Handbook (1995)
But all was well when she realised she was to be maid of honour.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
 Presumably the mistress's work was frequently shared by a maid or other servant.
The Times Literary Supplement (2012)
We've come up with a few ideas to help out the best man and maid of honour.
The Sun (2010)
In 1999 she was caught fighting with a young maid over a married pastry chef they were both seeing.
The Sun (2008)
A hotel maid in a beige uniform paused at the corner of the courthouse and slipped out of trainers into her work shoes.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
We talked about dresses and I told her she would be my maid of honour.
The Sun (2011)
She was the only person I wanted as my maid of honour.
The Sun (2015)
A disorganised woman is asked to be maid of honour at her best friend's wedding.
The Sun (2012)
Were not Achilles and Ajax both in love with their servant maids?
William Thackeray Vanity Fair (1837)
It was at the celeb's multi-million pound house while the maid was away.
The Sun (2016)

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live-in maid
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In other languages

British English: maid   /meɪd/ NOUN
A maid is a woman who works as a servant in a hotel or private house.
A maid brought me breakfast.
  • American English: maid   /ˈmeɪd/
  • Arabic: خَادِمَةٌ  
  • Brazilian Portuguese: empregada doméstica  
  • Chinese: 女仆  
  • Croatian: sobarica  
  • Czech: služebná  
  • Danish: tjenestepige  
  • Dutch: dienstmeisje  
  • European Spanish: criada  
  • Finnish: palvelijatar  
  • French: bonne  
  • German: Dienstmädchen  
  • Greek: υπηρέτρια  
  • Italian: cameriera  
  • Japanese: お手伝い   使用人
  • Korean: 하녀  
  • Norwegian: tjenestepike  
  • Polish: służąca  
  • European Portuguese: empregada doméstica  
  • Romanian: menajeră
  • Russian: горничная  
  • Spanish: criada  
  • Swedish: hembiträde  
  • Thai: สาวใช้, คนทำงานบ้าน, พนักงานทำความสะอาด
  • Turkish: hizmetçi kadın  
  • Ukrainian: покоївка
  • Vietnamese: người hầu gái  

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