maid
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /meɪd/
maid (plural maids)
- (dated or poetic) A girl or an unmarried young woman; maiden.
- A female servant or cleaner (short for maidservant).
- (archaic) A virgin, now female but originally one 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
- (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)
- French: demoiselle, jeune fille
- German: Mädchen
- Italian: signorina
- Portuguese: donzela, moça
- Russian: деви́ца
- Spanish: doncella, señorita
- French: bonne, bonne à tout faire, domestique, servante
- German: Stubenmädchen
- Italian: cameriera
- Portuguese: empregada, servente, doméstica
- Russian: го́рничная
- Spanish: (inoffensive terms) criada, doméstica, empleada doméstica, muchacha de servicio, sirvienta, asesora del hogar (Chile), asistenta (Spain), mucama (Argentina), nana (Chile), señora de servicio (Venezuela), (offensive terms) cachifa (Venezuela), chacha (Mexico), cholera (El Salvador), chopa (Dominican Republic), fregona (Spain), gata (Mexico), muca (Guatemala), nacha (Honduras)
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