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maid | maidlike |

As a noun maid

is maiden.

As an adjective maidlike is

(archaic|poetic) maidenly.

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

    * ----

    maidlike

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (archaic, poetic) maidenly
  • Resembling or characteristic of a maid (female domestic servant).
  • * 1978 , Marc Edmund Jones, Man, magic, and fantasy: the domestication of imagination
    • Somehow his maidlike service to her collapsed what she was building up, psychologically.