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maid

UK/meɪd/

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Scotland/med/

maid noun: a girl or an unmarried young woman; maiden.

Noun (1)

maid (plural maids)

  1. (dated, poetic) A girl or an unmarried young woman; maiden.
    Synonyms:
    damsel, maiden
  2. An adult or adolescent female servant or cleaner (short for maidservant). (In feudal times this could be anyone from a high-ranking assistant to a low-ranking cleaner.)
    • She was a fat, round little woman, richly apparelled in velvet and lace, […]; and the way she laughed, cackling like a hen, the way she talked to the waiters and the maid,[…]—all these unexpected phenomena impelled one to hysterical mirth, and made one class her with such immortally ludicrous types...1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter II, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC
  3. (archaic) A virgin, now female but originally one of either gender.
    • You are betrothed both to a maid and man.c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...

Verb

maid (third-person singular simple present maids, present participle maiding, simple past and past participle maided)

  1. (rare, transitive) To serve as lady's maid to, to wait upon.
    • And as she did so there came to her a comfortable recollection, an incident of her long-past youth, in the days when she, then Ellen Green, had maided a dear old lady.1913, Marie Adelaide Belloc Lowndes, The Lodger

Noun (2) capitalized: MAID

MAID (countable and uncountable, plural MAIDs)

  1. (Canada, US, abbreviation, acronym, uncountable) Acronym of medical assistance in dying.
  2. (Internet, abbreviation, acronym, countable) Acronym of mobile advertising ID.

Proper noun capitalized: Maid

the Maid

  1. The constellation and zodiacal sign Virgo.
    • Virgo, the Maid, guideth the Womb, Midriff and Guts.1668, ‘Godfridus’, The Knowledge of Things Unknown, London: G.P. for G. Sawbridge, page 20
    • The diamond is said to typify innocence, and it is also associated with Virgo, the maid, in the Signs of the Zodiac, whilst the ruby is associated with the sign Aries, the ram.1889 February 7, The Herald, Melbourne, page 4, column 3
  2. Joan of Arc

Noun (3) capitalized: MAiD

MAiD (uncountable)

  1. (Canada, alternative) Alternative form of MAID (“medical assistance in dying”).

maid meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

maid in Hindi

young female
लड़की laṛkī, कन्या kanyā
female servant or cleaner
नौकरानी naukrānī, दासी dāsī, सेविका sevikā

maid in Tamil

பணிப்பெண், பணிப்பெண்ணிடம்

maid in Marathi

female servant or cleaner
बाई bāī, कामवाली बाई kāmvālī bāī

maid in Urdu

young female
لڑکی laṛkī
female servant or cleaner
نوکرانی naukrānī
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maid in Bengali
চাকরানী cakrani, দাসী daśi
maid in Telugu
కన్య kanya, పనిపిల్ల panipilla
maid in Malayalam
വേലക്കാരി, വേലക്കാരിയെ
maid in Kannada
ದಾಸಿ
maid in Punjabi
ਨੌਕਰਾਣੀ, ਨੌਕਰਾਨੀ
maid in Gujarati
નોકરાણી
maid in Odia
ଦାସୀ
maid in Nepali
दासी
maid in Arabic
جَارِيَة jāriya, فَتَاة fatāh, خَادِمَة ḵādima, خَدامَة ḵadāma
maid in Indonesian
gadis, perawan, babu, bedinde
maid in Thai
สาว sǎao, สาวใช้ sǎao-chái
maid in Vietnamese
đầy tớ gái, hầu gái

Examples of maid in a sentence

  • There are three servants in the household, the butler and two maids.
  • There was once a knight who wooed a fair young maid.
  • A live-in maid is a true luxury, but even a maid once a week is great.

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Synonyms of maid

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Forms of maid

Noun
pluralmaids
pluralMAIDs
alternative formMAiD
Verb
third-person singular presentmaids
present participlemaiding
past participlemaided
pastmaided

Plural of maid: maids

Origin of maid

From Middle English mayde, maide, abbreviation of Middle English maiden from Old English mæġden (Old English mǣden). Ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *magaþ, from Proto-Germanic *magaþs (“girl, virgin”).

Words formed from maid

Phrases with maid

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Words that rhyme with maid

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Questions about maid

What does maid mean?
Maid means a girl or an unmarried young woman; maiden.
What is maid in Hindi?
Maid in Hindi is लड़की (laṛkī), कन्या (kanyā), नौकरानी (naukrānī). See Maid meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is maid?
Maid can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce maid?
Maid is pronounced /meɪd/ (UK).
What is the plural of maid?
The plural of maid is maids.

Words near maid in the dictionary

  1. Maibism
  2. maibock
  3. maibocks
  4. Maibram
  5. Maibu
  6. maid
  7. maid cafe
  8. maid cafes
  9. maid café
  10. maid cafés
  11. maid child

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: maid (page history and authors); MAID (page history and authors); Maid (page history and authors); MAiD (page history and authors); maid (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); maid (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); maid (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); maid (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); maid (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); maid (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); maid (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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