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as in housekeepers
a female domestic servant
hired a maid to do the housework after the baby was born
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as in girls
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 maids
Doris and Ann, the family’s longtime upstairs-downstairs maids, were there too.
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Jennifer Cannon, Vanity Fair, 7 Apr. 2026
Roughly 82% of the Bay Area’s maids and housekeepers are immigrants, and close to 40% of the total are undocumented.
—Sara Dinatale, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 Mar. 2026
But the bar maids rallied together and eventually won their fight.
—Hannah Kliger, CBS News, 24 Mar. 2026
The movie does attempt to gesture at class and race as thematic underpinnings (the maids trapped in The Virgil are mostly non-white, while the villains are rich Caucasians), but like the story and action at large, these go pretty much nowhere, and feel like obligatory symbols.
—Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 18 Mar. 2026
One former chef later told federal investigators how Epstein would take a girl to his master bedroom every hour, and after his massage, the maids would go make the bed and clean up.
—Isabelle Chapman, CNN Money, 13 Mar. 2026
Specifically, household staff like housekeepers, ladies' maids and valets.
—Angeline Jane Bernabe, ABC News, 4 Mar. 2026
As such, maids' uniforms, livery, and everything in between were top of mind for the hair, makeup, and costume teams this season, as an entirely new cast of characters had to be outfitted in the Regency style of the servant class—especially in Part 2 of the season, which drops February 26.
—Madeline Hirsch, InStyle, 26 Feb. 2026
As teens, boys apprenticed on farms or with artisans, and girls as dairy maids.
—Literary Hub, 19 Feb. 2026
Jennifer Cannon, Vanity Fair, 7 Apr. 2026
Roughly 82% of the Bay Area’s maids and housekeepers are immigrants, and close to 40% of the total are undocumented.
—Sara Dinatale, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 Mar. 2026
But the bar maids rallied together and eventually won their fight.
—Hannah Kliger, CBS News, 24 Mar. 2026
The movie does attempt to gesture at class and race as thematic underpinnings (the maids trapped in The Virgil are mostly non-white, while the villains are rich Caucasians), but like the story and action at large, these go pretty much nowhere, and feel like obligatory symbols.
—Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 18 Mar. 2026
One former chef later told federal investigators how Epstein would take a girl to his master bedroom every hour, and after his massage, the maids would go make the bed and clean up.
—Isabelle Chapman, CNN Money, 13 Mar. 2026
Specifically, household staff like housekeepers, ladies' maids and valets.
—Angeline Jane Bernabe, ABC News, 4 Mar. 2026
As such, maids' uniforms, livery, and everything in between were top of mind for the hair, makeup, and costume teams this season, as an entirely new cast of characters had to be outfitted in the Regency style of the servant class—especially in Part 2 of the season, which drops February 26.
—Madeline Hirsch, InStyle, 26 Feb. 2026
As teens, boys apprenticed on farms or with artisans, and girls as dairy maids.
—Literary Hub, 19 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for maids
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The new rules also force opt-out owners to pay extra for sheets and towels and hire their own housekeepers, who are not allowed to work on weekends.—
Larry Seward,
Miami Herald,
11 Apr. 2026
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The new rules also force opt-out owners to pay extra for sheets and towels and hire their own housekeepers, who are not allowed to work on weekends.—
Larry Seward,
CBS News,
10 Apr. 2026
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The problem with that is that changing your life, and really believing, is so much harder than, for example, smoking weed and dancing with girls at a party.—
Rafaela Bassili,
Vulture,
13 Apr. 2026
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This week's hearing, which could produce the most extensive public comment from the all-girls Christian camp's operators, comes amid their application for a state license to reopen Camp Mystic this summer on a part of campus that did not flood.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
13 Apr. 2026
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This British production from Hammer Films and director Roy Ward Baker showcases moon maidens, old-fashioned lunar shootouts, buggy chases, and an ex-astronaut turned mercenary salvager trying to snag a 6000-pound sapphire asteroid from orbit for a billionaire industrialist.—
Jeff Spry,
Space.com,
30 Mar. 2026
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The 2026 Miss Smiling Irish Eyes is Molly McKenna, and the court maidens Kennedy Kuntz and Sidney Hoover.—
Patrick Damp,
CBS News,
14 Mar. 2026
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“Maids.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/maids. Accessed 18 Apr. 2026.
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