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as in housekeeper
a female domestic servant
hired a maid to do the housework after the baby was born
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as in girl
a young unmarried woman
a dance where the fair maids and handsome bucks of the village hoped to meet one another
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Recent Examples of maid
Eight years later, the dying grandmother sold the little girl into Xue Ke’s husband’s household as a maid, in hopes that daughter and mother would reunite.
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Karissa Chen, People.com, 26 Apr. 2025
You as a cook, a chef, a butler, a maid, the engineer.
—Lexy Perez, HollywoodReporter, 16 June 2025
Often Black women were relegated to stereotypical roles as maids, mammies, or exoticized figures.
—Ime Ekpo, Forbes.com, 8 June 2025
Proclamations that a certain technology is about to radically alter our everyday lives are almost always proven wrong: There are no flying cars or robot maids; our life expectancies are holding steady if not declining; the iPod did not, after all, destroy the album as a creative format.
—Pitchfork, 6 June 2025
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Karissa Chen, People.com, 26 Apr. 2025
You as a cook, a chef, a butler, a maid, the engineer.
—Lexy Perez, HollywoodReporter, 16 June 2025
Often Black women were relegated to stereotypical roles as maids, mammies, or exoticized figures.
—Ime Ekpo, Forbes.com, 8 June 2025
Proclamations that a certain technology is about to radically alter our everyday lives are almost always proven wrong: There are no flying cars or robot maids; our life expectancies are holding steady if not declining; the iPod did not, after all, destroy the album as a creative format.
—Pitchfork, 6 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for maid
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If enacted, the wage mandate would affect thousands of workers in San Diego, from hotel housekeepers to ballpark ticket takers and zookeepers, some of whom would see their hourly pay rise by as much as 45% from the city’s current minimum wage of $17.25 an hour.—
Lori Weisberg,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
25 June 2025
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Actresses mentioned in the running included Judith Anderson (the housekeeper in Hitchcock’s Rebecca) and Helen Hayes.—
Marc Berman,
Forbes.com,
16 June 2025
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The horse that is poised to pull the upset is Baeza, who has only won one race, a maiden at Santa Anita.—
John Cherwa,
Los Angeles Times,
6 June 2025
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In Greek myth, the Hesperides were maidens who guarded golden apples that, once eaten, promised everlasting life.—
Sean Kingsley,
HollywoodReporter,
24 May 2025
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“Maid.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/maid. Accessed 9 Jul. 2025.
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