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housemaid

/ˈhaʊsˌmeɪd/

housemaid noun: a female domestic worker responsible for cleaning a house.

housemaid: a female domestic worker responsible for cleaning a house
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Noun

housemaid (plural housemaids)

  1. A female domestic worker responsible for cleaning a house.
    • With a dramatic gesture, he pointed to a large splash of candle grease on the floor by the writing-table. "It must have been done since yesterday, otherwise a good housemaid would have at once removed it with blotting-paper and a hot iron. […]”1920, Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles
  2. (derogatory) A housewife.

Verb

housemaid (third-person singular simple present housemaids, present participle housemaiding, simple past and past participle housemaided)

  1. To be a housemaid.
  2. To wait on someone hand on foot, to watch them.
  3. To clean, as a housemaid.
    • Giving that up, she took a broom and a duster and went upstairs to housemaid Mrs Dibble's bedroom, with her head tied up in a coloured scarf. It was a dusty, snuffy job, for penuriousness in Mrs Dibble refused to throw anything away, including dirt, and if anything fell on the floor it remained...1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 32

housemaid meaning in Hindi and Tamil

housemaid in Hindi

housemaid
बाई bāī

housemaid in Tamil

வீட்டுப் பணிப்பெண்

Forms of housemaid

Noun
pluralhousemaids
alternative formhouse maid
alternative formhouse-maid
Verb
third-person singular presenthousemaids
present participlehousemaiding
past participlehousemaided
pasthousemaided

Plural of housemaid: housemaids

Origin of housemaid

From house + maid.

Words formed from housemaid

Questions about housemaid

What does housemaid mean?
Housemaid means a female domestic worker responsible for cleaning a house.
What is housemaid in Hindi?
Housemaid in Hindi is बाई (bāī). See Housemaid meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is housemaid?
Housemaid can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce housemaid?
Housemaid is pronounced /ˈhaʊsˌmeɪd/ (US).
What is the plural of housemaid?
The plural of housemaid is housemaids.

Words near housemaid in the dictionary

  1. houselled
  2. houselling
  3. housels
  4. Housely
  5. housemade
  6. housemaid
  7. housemaid's knee
  8. housemaided
  9. housemaiden
  10. housemaidenly
  11. housemaidens

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: housemaid (page history and authors); बाई (Hindi) (page history and authors); housemaid (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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