Maid - English meaning

noun

A nursemaid or maid in east asia or india.

Usage examples:

She had been a perfect amah and servant since her employment there began only a few years before.

noun

A polite form of address for a woman.

Usage examples:

I had hoped to compose for lata bai for a long time.

noun

A woman who cleans bedrooms and bathrooms in a hotel.

Usage examples:

Women worked as hotel chambermaids, housekeepers, babysitters, factory and fast-food workers, and n…

noun

A woman employed in a hotel to clean and tidy bedrooms

noun

A young bird, especially one newly hatched.

Usage examples:

The cattle egrets hatched and reared two chicks

noun

(in south asia) a folding bamboo screen for a doorway.

noun

A person employed to clean the interior of a building.

Usage examples:

She's one of the office cleaners

adjective

Free from dirt, marks, or stains.

Usage examples:

The room was spotlessly clean

noun

A business that cleans clothes by using chemicals

Usage examples:

A window cleaner, a household cleaner

noun

A girl or young woman.

Usage examples:

It is ironic that what o'casey was satirising in some of his later plays, the dancing colleens at t…

noun

A girl or young woman

adjective

Done, produced, or occurring every day or every weekday.

Usage examples:

A daily newspaper

adverb

Every day.

Usage examples:

The museum is open daily

noun

A newspaper published every day except sunday.

Usage examples:

The trial was reported in all the popular dailies

noun

A young unmarried woman.

Usage examples:

The young damsel has been captured by baddie pirate barbossa because she possesses a rare coin.

noun

A young woman who is not married

Usage examples:

The heroine in this movie isn’t like some damsel in distress (= woman needing a man’s help) waiting…

noun

A small, graceful old world crane with a black head and breast and white ear tufts, breeding in south-eastern europe and central asia.

Usage examples:

Keeping us company were a demoiselle crane on the shore and a flock of waders in the water.

adjective

Relating to the running of a home or to family relations.

Usage examples:

Domestic chores

noun

A person who is paid to help with cleaning and other menial tasks in a person's home.

Usage examples:

Nor were we happy with how some of the churches educated, when they seemed to train the young prima…

noun

A stout seed- or fruit-eating bird with a small head, short legs, and a cooing voice, typically having grey and white plumage.

noun

A person made to do hard menial or dull work.

Usage examples:

I felt like a household drudge

verb

Do hard menial work.

Usage examples:

Her husband was drudging in the smoke of london

noun

A person who has to work hard at boring and unpleasant tasks and who is not respected by other people

Usage examples:

I feel like a real drudge - i've done nothing but clean all day!

noun

A young female horse, especially one less than four years old.

Usage examples:

Four fillies and five colts all breezed one furlong in 10.20 seconds.

noun

A young, female horse

noun

A title or form of address for an unmarried german-speaking woman, especially a young woman.

Usage examples:

Fräulein winkelmann

noun

A female child.

Usage examples:

A six-year-old girl

noun

A female child or, more generally, a female of any age

Usage examples:

Two little girls showed us around the kindergarten., the girls’ basketball team is undefeated., we …

adjective

Characteristic of or appropriate to a girl or young woman.

Usage examples:

Girly pink paper

noun

A girl or young woman (often used as a condescending term of address).

Usage examples:

What's your name, girlie?

verb

Make it easier or possible for (someone) to do something by offering one's services or resources.

Usage examples:

They helped her with domestic chores

noun

The action of helping someone to do something.

Usage examples:

I asked for help from my neighbours

exclamation

Used as an appeal for urgent assistance.

Usage examples:

Help! i'm drowning!

noun

A person employed to manage a household.

Usage examples:

In a scheme being piloted for the first time outside london, affluent city workers can employ filip…

noun

A person, usually a woman, whose job is to take care of another person’s house, esp. by cleaning it

noun

A female domestic employee, especially one who cleans reception rooms and bedrooms.

Usage examples:

As our family grew we'd hired more servants so that now we had a parlourmaid, two housemaids, two k…

noun

A woman servant whose job is to clean a large house, and who often lives there

noun

A girl or young woman.

Usage examples:

He married a lass from yorkshire

noun

A girl or young woman.

Usage examples:

I'm going to see a wee lassie tonight

noun

A girl or young woman

noun

A title or form of address used of or to an unmarried french-speaking woman, corresponding to miss.

Usage examples:

Mademoiselle rossignol

noun

An unmarried girl or young woman.

Usage examples:

Two knights fought to win the hand of a fair maiden

adjective

(of an older woman) unmarried.

Usage examples:

A maiden aunt

noun

A girl or young woman

Usage examples:

In the story, the prince woos the fair maiden., a maiden voyage/flight

noun

A female domestic servant.

Usage examples:

She promptly placed one thousand man-servants opposite one thousand maidservants and declared, ‘he …

adjective

(of work) not requiring much skill and lacking prestige.

Usage examples:

Menial factory jobs

noun

A person with a menial job.

Usage examples:

Despite tall claims that a determined attempt to eradicate child labour has been initiated, hundred…

verb

Fail to hit, reach, or come into contact with (something aimed at).

Usage examples:

A laser-guided bomb had missed its target

noun

A failure to hit, catch, or reach something.

Usage examples:

The penalty miss cost us the game

noun

A title prefixed to the name of an unmarried woman or girl, or to that of a married woman retaining her maiden name for professional purposes.

Usage examples:

Miss hazel armstrong

noun

A mythological spirit of nature imagined as a beautiful maiden inhabiting rivers, woods, or other locations.

Usage examples:

The idyllic world of nymphs and shepherds

noun

(in ancient greek and roman traditional stories) a goddess or spirit in the form of a young woman, living in a tree, river, mountain, etc.

Usage examples:

We played the part of wood nymphs dancing around snow white in the forest., the god apollo is madde…

noun

A form of an insect that has not yet developed into an adult, but is often very similar to an adult

Usage examples:

It is possible that tick nymphs could repeatedly bite a person., the nymph feeds and grows, moultin…

noun

In the past, a woman employed as a servant in a house, for example to serve meals, or to open the door to visitors

Usage examples:

The parlourmaid cleared away the first course., she was at home, sitting by the fire in the little …

noun

A title or form of address used of or to a spanish-speaking unmarried woman, corresponding to miss.

Usage examples:

You have a beautiful smile my little señorita!

noun

A girl or woman.

Usage examples:

A female may be my sheila, my bird, my charley, my good sort, my hot-drop, my judy or my wife, but …

noun

A girl or a woman

noun

A title or form of address used of or to an italian-speaking unmarried woman, corresponding to miss.

Usage examples:

Signorina rosalba

noun

Each of a pair of long, narrow pieces of hard, flexible material, typically pointed and turned up at the front, fastened under the feet for travelling over snow.

Usage examples:

A pair of skis

verb

Travel over snow on skis; take part in the sport or recreation of skiing.

Usage examples:

They skied down the mountain

noun

Either of a pair of long, narrow pieces of wood or other material which curve up at the front and are fastened to boots so the person wearing them can move quickly and easily over snow

Usage examples:

We skied a lot when we were younger., there are lots of skiers on the slopes today., i’m going skii…

noun

A girl or young woman.

Usage examples:

In the new film about columbus, she plays the token buxom wench

verb

(of a man) habitually associate with prostitutes.

noun

A young woman