chambermaid

noun

Definition of chambermaidnext
as in housekeeper

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Recent Examples of chambermaid Prior soon learned that a job agency had sent the teenager, who couldn’t read, to seek employment at the house as a chambermaid. — Jenna Deep, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Mar. 2025 According to a Physics Today article that delved into her background, her father was a plumber and her mother worked part time as a hotel chambermaid. — IEEE Spectrum, 16 Feb. 2025 It’s based on the true story of a Jewish child in 1850s Italy who was secretly baptized by a chambermaid and then abducted by the papal police and raised Catholic. — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Dec. 2024 Her follow-up project, The Hotel (1981), saw Calle assuming the role of chambermaid at a Venetian inn. — airmail.news, 26 Oct. 2024 See All Example Sentences for chambermaid
Recent Examples of Synonyms for chambermaid
  1. housekeeper
  2. housemaid
  3. maid
  4. charwoman
  5. maidservant
  6. attendant
Noun
  • The former California governor also shares youngest son Joseph Baena, 28, with former housekeeper Mildred Patricia Baena.
    — Jack Smart, PEOPLE, 30 July 2026
  • The film is about a former housekeeper named Marie who, while preparing to celebrate her engagement to the patriarch of the house, is haunted by secrets of her past.
    — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 23 July 2026
Definition of housekeeper
Noun
  • As a live-in housemaid for one of the town’s two Jewish families, Lautenschläger saw the lies behind Nazi propaganda.
    — Fern Schumer Chapman, Chicago Tribune, 5 Aug. 2026
  • Look no further than Krieps’s freethinking housemaid, Bridget.
    — Savannah Walsh, Vanity Fair, 4 Aug. 2026
Definition of housemaid
Noun
  • Based on Freida McFadden’s bestselling novel, the sequel picks up as Sweeney’s Millie, who works as a live-in maid for wealthy families, takes a new job — this time keeping house for a woman she’s never allowed to see.
    — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 4 Aug. 2026
  • If Lizzie is Cinderella, then actor Vicky Krieps’s Bridget Sullivan, the Bordens’ live-in maid, is her fairy godmother.
    — Savannah Walsh, Vanity Fair, 4 Aug. 2026
Definition of maid
Noun
  • Young is well-known for her work with Habitat for Humanity, having been charwoman of the Meeker County chapter since 1995.
    — Contributed Content, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2025
  • Unlike real strippers, the charwoman doffs only her cardigan.
    — Alice George, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Nov. 2022
Definition of charwoman
Noun
  • The enterprising maidservant followed him into a shop.
    — John Swansburg, The Atlantic, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Julia, who was already pregnant with her and Henry’s second child, is forced to work as a maidservant for the reprehensible Lord Lovat (Tony Curran), who happens to be the father of Brian.
    — Max Gao, HollywoodReporter, 5 Sep. 2025
Definition of maidservant
Noun
  • The attendant laughed nervously and waved off the request for payment.
    — Evan Osnos, New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2026
  • This process typically comes along with a fee, but be sure to tip your attendant, too.
    — Patricia Shannon, Southern Living, 29 July 2026
Definition of attendant

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