1
: an unmarried girl or woman especially when young : virgin
2
a
b
: a woman or girl employed to do domestic work
Synonyms
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 on the Web
Advertisement Jobs for Black people were limited and mainly included work as maids or drivers, Ashley said.
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Ashley Ahn, Los Angeles Times, 5 Apr. 2024
Produced by Ronald Monteverde, the eight-part thriller centers on a Filipino maid and a Ukrainian detective unraveling a mystery that begins with a dead body in small town and spans halfway across the globe.
—Ben Croll, Variety, 20 Mar. 2024
Forgotten tipped workers like hotel maids and airport skycaps were already hit hard by a cashless economy.
—Karla L. Miller, Washington Post, 29 Feb. 2024
His father, George, owned 25,000 acres of land and operated large plantations in Virginia, relying on enslaved people to work as carpenters, coopers, sawyers, blacksmiths, tanners, shoemakers, spinners, weavers, knitters, distillers, cooks, laundry maids and field laborers.
—Sue Eisenfeld, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Feb. 2024
The trend, Weil wrote, encompasses hotel maids, cable installers, commercial janitors and merchandise pickers in Amazon warehouses — all are actually on the payroll of third-party employment firms.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar. 2024
These rumors, which spread primarily in the American South, maintained that Black maids, cooks and other domestic workers were organizing to walk off the job at the first lady’s urging, leaving their white employers to do their own housework.
—Greg Daugherty, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Mar. 2024
The custodians, the teachers, the workers, the maids, the bus drivers and not to mention the Black veterans.
—C. Isaiah Smalls Ii, Miami Herald, 18 Feb. 2024
His mother was Ursule, the mistress’s waiting maid.
—Elizabeth Stone, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2024
Ashley Ahn, Los Angeles Times, 5 Apr. 2024
Produced by Ronald Monteverde, the eight-part thriller centers on a Filipino maid and a Ukrainian detective unraveling a mystery that begins with a dead body in small town and spans halfway across the globe.
—Ben Croll, Variety, 20 Mar. 2024
Forgotten tipped workers like hotel maids and airport skycaps were already hit hard by a cashless economy.
—Karla L. Miller, Washington Post, 29 Feb. 2024
His father, George, owned 25,000 acres of land and operated large plantations in Virginia, relying on enslaved people to work as carpenters, coopers, sawyers, blacksmiths, tanners, shoemakers, spinners, weavers, knitters, distillers, cooks, laundry maids and field laborers.
—Sue Eisenfeld, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Feb. 2024
The trend, Weil wrote, encompasses hotel maids, cable installers, commercial janitors and merchandise pickers in Amazon warehouses — all are actually on the payroll of third-party employment firms.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar. 2024
These rumors, which spread primarily in the American South, maintained that Black maids, cooks and other domestic workers were organizing to walk off the job at the first lady’s urging, leaving their white employers to do their own housework.
—Greg Daugherty, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Mar. 2024
The custodians, the teachers, the workers, the maids, the bus drivers and not to mention the Black veterans.
—C. Isaiah Smalls Ii, Miami Herald, 18 Feb. 2024
His mother was Ursule, the mistress’s waiting maid.
—Elizabeth Stone, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2024
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“Maid.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/maid. Accessed 18 Apr. 2024.
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maid
noun1
: an unmarried girl or woman
especially
: maiden entry 1
2
: a female servant
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