Maid vs Concubine - What's the difference?
maid | concubine |
(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)
A woman who lives with a man, but who is not a wife.
A slave-girl for sexual service prominent in all ancient cultures.
Signifies a relationship where the male is the dominant partner, socially and economically
A woman attached to a man solely for reproduction, and who cares for the resulting children without any romantic relationship.
a woman residing in a harem and kept, as by a sultan or emperor, for sexual purposes.
A woman kept by a man who is high in hierarchial society in addition to his wives, e.g in the imperial harem or within a household.
As nouns the difference between maid and concubine
is that maid is maiden while concubine is a woman who lives with a man, but who is not a wife.maid
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(en noun)- Note - maid is often used in the common or species names of flowering plants.
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- Crist was a mayde and shapen as a man.
- You are betrothed both to a maid and man.
