Entry Word: maid

Function: noun

Meaning: 1 a female domestic servant <they hired a maid to do the housework after the baby was born>

Synonyms charwoman, domestic, housekeeper, housemaid, maidservant

Related Words attendant, chambermaid, handmaiden (also handmaid), lady-in-waiting; nursemaid

2 a young usually unmarried woman <a dance where the fair maids and handsome bucks of the village hoped to meet one another> — see girl 1