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Maid vs Meido - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between maid and meido

is that maid is a girl or an unmarried young woman; maiden while meido is a female fictional character who is employed as a maid, typically wearing a stylized French maid outfit.

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

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    meido

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (chiefly, Japanese fiction) A female fictional character who is employed as a maid, typically wearing a stylized French maid outfit.
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  • * 2008 , Kitty Sensei, " Playing pirate", Malaysia Star , 12 October 2008:
    • And then there’s Roberta, who seems like a typical meido (maid) character until she pulls out machine guns from her lacy uniform!
  • * 2008 , Memedi, " Loyal helper", Malaysia Star , 9 November 2008:
    • Although this is a manga about maids, don’t expect to see the submissive and fawning maids of the meido category. The protagonist here is a faithful, skilled and courteous maid from the old English society.
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  • A waitress at a .
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  • * 2009 , John Graham-Cumming, The Geek Atlas: 128 Places Where Science and Technology Come Alive , O'Reilly Media (2009), ISBN 9780596523206, page 104:
    • These meido attract customers by role-playing the part of a maid, complete with French maid-inspired outfits that are long on fantasy elements and typically short on skirt length.
  • * 2012 , Dave Tacon, " Dusting off a geek fetish for all things maid in Japan", Sydney Morning Herald , 1 April 2012:
    • "I like having conversations with different meidos ," he explains, "but Haruki is my favourite because she's friendliest to me."
    Utena, a meido with pink hair and red plastic horns, recently celebrated her fourth year at Maidolce.
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