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Maid vs Housekeeping - What's the difference?

maid | housekeeping |

As nouns the difference between maid and housekeeping

is that maid is maiden while housekeeping is the chores of maintaining a house as a residence, especially cleaning.

maid

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (dated, or, poetic) A girl or an unmarried young woman; maiden.
  • Note - maid is often used in the common or species names of flowering plants.
  • A female servant or cleaner (short for maidservant).
  • * , title=The Mirror and the Lamp
  • , chapter=2 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.}}
  • (archaic) A virgin of either gender.
  • * 1380+ , (Geoffrey Chaucer), (The Canterbury Tales)
  • Crist was a mayde and shapen as a man.
  • * 1601 , (William Shakespeare), (Twelfth Night)
  • You are betrothed both to a maid and man.

    Synonyms

    * (young female person) damsel, maiden * (female servant) handmaiden, lady-in-waiting, maidservant * (female cleaner) chambermaid (in a hotel), charlady (in a house), charwoman (in a house)

    See also

    * bridesmaid * French maid * maid of honour * mermaid * old maid

    Anagrams

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    housekeeping

    English

    Noun

  • The chores of maintaining a house as a residence, especially cleaning.
  • * 1842 , Samuel Laing, Notes of a traveller (page 474)
  • Those who with us would have their own little housekeepings and cooking, have not the means, nor perhaps the taste, for such domestic comfort, and take their victuals at the trattoria, or cook-shop.
  • Any general tasks that involve preparation.
  • The computer program does some general housekeeping involving initializing variables and opening files before beginning the main processing.
  • Hospitality; a liberal and hospitable table; a supply of provisions.
  • * Sir Walter Scott
  • "Care not thou about that," said Joliffe; "but tell me, softly and hastily, what is in the pantry?"
    "Small housekeeping enough," said Phoebe; "a cold capon and some comfits, and the great standing venison pasty, with plenty of spice — a manchet or two besides, and that is all."