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Maid
A maid, or housemaid or maidservant, is a female domestic worker. Although now usually found only in the most wealthy of households, in the Victorian era domestic service was the second largest category of employment in England and Wales, after agricultural work.
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Maid (noun)
A girl or an unmarried young woman; maiden.
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Maid (noun)
A female servant or cleaner (short for maidservant).
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Maid (noun)
A virgin, now female but originally one of either gender.
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Maiden (noun)
A girl or an unmarried young woman.
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Maiden (noun)
A female virgin.
“She’s unmarried and still a maiden.”
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Maiden (noun)
A man with no experience of sex, especially because of deliberate abstention.
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Maiden (noun)
A maidservant.
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Maiden (noun)
A clothes maiden.
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Maiden (noun)
An unmarried woman, especially an older woman.
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Maiden (noun)
A racehorse without any victory, i.e. one having a “virgin record”.
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Maiden (noun)
A horse race in which all starters are maidens.
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Maiden (noun)
A Scottish counterpart of the guillotine.
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Maiden (noun)
A maiden over.
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Maiden (noun)
A machine for washing linen.
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Maiden (adjective)
Virgin.
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Maiden (adjective)
Without offspring.
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Maiden (adjective)
Like or befitting a (young, unmarried) maiden.
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Maiden (adjective)
Being a first occurrence or event.
“The Titanic sank on its maiden voyage.”
“After Edmund Burke’s maiden speech, William Pitt the Elder said Burke had “spoken in such a manner as to stop the mouths of all Europe” and that the Commons should congratulate itself on acquiring such a member.”
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Maiden (adjective)
Being an over in which no runs are scored.
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Maiden (adjective)
Fresh; innocent; unpolluted; pure; hitherto unused.
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Maiden (adjective)
Never having been captured or violated.
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Maiden (adjective)
Grown from seed and never pruned
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Maid (noun)
a female domestic servant
“Mary eventually managed to find a job as a maid”
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Maid (noun)
an unmarried girl or young woman.
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Maid (noun)
a virgin.