Lass vs Maid - What's the difference?

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Lass is a related term of maid.

As nouns the difference between lass and maid

is that lass is (archaic|informal) a young woman or girl while maid is maiden.

lass

English

Noun

(lasses)

(archaic, informal) A young woman or girl.

"Come and dance, ye lads and lasses !"

(Geordie) A sweetheart.

Usage notes

Still prevalent in Scottish English and Northern English dialects such as Geordie (Tyneside), Wearside/County Durham, Northumberland/Northumbrian, Teesside and Yorkshire. Sometimes used poetically in other dialects of English.

Synonyms

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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)

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