maid

CEFRB1

/meɪd/

noun · verb

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A woman or girl employed to clean and care for a home.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    A virgin, now female but originally one of either gender.

Examples

  • The maid arranged the knives and forks on the table.

  • The maid came in bearing a cake.

At a glance

Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
2
Citations
3
Synonyms
5

Also pronounced

  • /med/
  • /meid/

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. An adult or adolescent female servant or cleaner (short for maidservant). (In feudal times this could be anyone from a high-ranking assistant to a low-ranking cleaner.)

  2. A girl or an unmarried young woman; maiden.

verb

Extra meaning

  1. To serve as lady's maid to, to wait upon.

More examples

In context

  • The maid announced each guest.

  • You are betrothed both to a maid and man.

  • And as she did so there came to her a comfortable recollection, an incident of her long-past youth, in the days when she, then Ellen Green, had maided a dear old lady.

Synonyms

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Origin

noun

From Middle English mayde, maide, abbreviation of Middle English maiden from Old English mæġden (Old English mǣden). Ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *magaþ, from Proto-Germanic *magaþs (“girl, virgin”).