Definition of maid
1 : an unmarried girl or woman especially when young : virgin
2a : maidservantb : a woman or girl employed to do domestic work
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Examples of maid in a Sentence
She hired a maid to do the cleaning.
hired a maid to do the housework after the baby was born
Recent Examples of maid from the Web
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Her husband makes some show of sharing her fantasy but seems to prefer splitting logs, feeding the ducks and flirting with a pretty young maid named Mieke (Lily James).
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As told in this compelling stage story, young Freda Josephine was made to leave her family's home at age 8 when her mother, who worked as a laundress, arranged for to work as a live-in maid for wealthy family.
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A maid had previously gone in to confiscate the gun, wrapped it in a towel, and handed it over to police.
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His mother worked as a maid; his father was a low-level civil servant.
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Among them is Teresa (Garcia), a Chilean woman in her 50s who came to Buenos Aires to work as a maid more than three decades ago.
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Jennifer Lawrence talked to Conan O'Brien in 2013 about how a hotel maid found a stash of butt plugs in her room that someone had given her as a joke and then proceeded to display them beautifully on the dresser:
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Maids and waiters and busboys and cooks and maintenance staff would all be hard at work, striving to keep their jobs, fighting to keep their Cypress housing permits.
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Italian Princess Electra Marconi, whose father invented the wireless transmitter used to send distress signals from the sinking ship, will also be on board as the maid of honor, Allsopp said.
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Origin and Etymology of maid
Middle English maide, short for maiden
First Known Use: 13th century
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playDefinition of maid for English Language Learners
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: a female servant; especially : a woman or girl who does cleaning work in a house or hotel
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: a girl or woman who is not married
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