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Maid
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- 1 The constellation and zodiacal sign Virgo.
"Virgo, the Maid, guideth the Womb, Midriff and Guts."
- 1 A girl or an unmarried young woman; maiden. dated, poetic
- 2 Acronym of medical assistance in dying. Canada, abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, uncountable
- 3 Alternative form of MAID (“medical assistance in dying”). Canada, alt-of, alternative, uncountable
- 4 an unmarried girl (especially a virgin) wordnet
- 5 A female servant or cleaner (short for maidservant).
"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."
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- 6 Acronym of mobile advertising ID. Internet, abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, countable
- 7 a female domestic wordnet
- 8 A virgin, now female but originally one of either gender. archaic
"You are betrothed both to a maid and man."
- 1 To serve as lady's maid to, to wait upon. rare, transitive
"And as she did so there came to her a comfortable recollection, an incident of her long-past youth, in the days when she, then Ellen Green, had maided a dear old lady."
Etymology
From Middle English mayde, maide, abbreviation of Middle English maiden from Old English mæġden (Old English mǣden). Ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *magaþ, from Proto-Germanic *magaþs (“girl, virgin”).
From Middle English mayde, maide, abbreviation of Middle English maiden from Old English mæġden (Old English mǣden). Ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *magaþ, from Proto-Germanic *magaþs (“girl, virgin”).
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