Bodyguard vs Maid - What's the difference?
bodyguard | maid |
A person or group of persons, often armed, responsible for protecting an individual.
To act as bodyguard for (someone); figuratively , to protect.
* 2005 , (Christopher Hitchens), ‘Burned Out’, Slate , Mar 7 2005:
(dated, or, poetic) A girl or an unmarried young woman; maiden.
A female servant or cleaner (short for maidservant).
* , title=The Mirror and the Lamp
, chapter=2 (archaic) A virgin of either gender.
* 1380+ , (Geoffrey Chaucer), (The Canterbury Tales)
* 1601 , (William Shakespeare), (Twelfth Night)
As nouns the difference between bodyguard and maid
is that bodyguard is bodyguard while maid is maiden.bodyguard
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(en verb)- The same report, on a news page and not bodyguarded by any news analysis warning, goes on to say that repeated discoveries of cheating and covert activity mean that the credibility of Iran has been harmed.
maid
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(en noun)- Note - maid is often used in the common or species names of flowering plants.
citation, passage=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 as Ally Sloper, the Widow Twankey, or Miss Moucher.}}
- Crist was a mayde and shapen as a man.
- You are betrothed both to a maid and man.
