Janitor vs Maid - What's the difference?
janitor | maid |
(en noun) (female:'' janitress''' or '''janitrix (''rare ))
(chiefly, US) someone who looks after the maintenance and cleaning of a public building.
a doorman
(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 janitor and maid
is that janitor is someone who looks after the maintenance and cleaning of a public building while maid is a girl or an unmarried young woman; maiden.janitor
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(wikipedia janitor)Noun
Synonyms
* maintenance person * (mostly British ) caretaker * cleaner * (British) concierge * custodian * (One who cleans and maintains a garden) groundskeeper * curator * portermaid
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Noun
(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.