Synonyms of handmaiden

handmaiden

noun

ˈhan(d)-ˌmā-dᵊn 

variants also handmaid

as in housekeeper

a female domestic servant

the princess was intensely shy, and allowed only her handmaiden to enter her chambers

Synonyms & Similar Words

• housekeeper
• maid
• maidservant
• housemaid
• charwoman
• house girl
• skivvy
• biddy
• wench
• char
• lady-in-waiting
• chambermaid
• attendant
• nursemaid
• abigail
• domestic
• au pair
• maid-in-waiting
• amah
• menial
• ayah

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of handmaiden

Brush in hand, she is dwarfed by huge canvases within the paintings on which bare-breasted figures are in the process of emerging—a waiflike handmaiden hard at work at the feet of her American Helens of Troy. — Naomi Fry, New Yorker, 23 May 2026

The common foe of all is expansionist Iran and its handmaidens Hamas and Hezbollah. — Josef Joffe, The Atlantic, 14 Feb. 2026

That’s for the courts to say, not Trump’s handmaidens in cruelty. — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 18 July 2025

And what the project means by the term—turning the Department of Energy into a handmaiden of the coal, oil and natural gas industry—betrays not only the taxpayer but science itself. — Megha Satyanarayana, Scientific American, 25 Apr. 2025