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# kitchenmaid

«kitchenmaid» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **kitchen assistant** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### kind

archaic word

### modern equivalent

kitchen assistant

### part of speech

noun

### meaning for a pupil

A girl or woman who helps in the kitchen with rough work. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/K/kitchenmaid/#m1)

### how it differs from today

No longer used; today we say "kitchen assistant" or "kitchen helper". The word is old, and the sentences use it in the same sense as its old meaning.

### examples

- ‘Little Nightingale,’ called out the little kitchenmaid, ‘our Gracious Emperor wants you to sing before him!’ (The Yellow Fairy Book) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/K/kitchenmaid/#x1)
- ‘No; that is a cow mooing!’ said the little kitchenmaid. ‘We are still a long way off!’ (The Yellow Fairy Book) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/K/kitchenmaid/#x2)
- ‘No, no; those are frogs!’ said the little kitchenmaid. ‘But I think we shall soon hear her now!’ (The Yellow Fairy Book) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/K/kitchenmaid/#x3)

### tests

rate: word (≥3 uses, never in EWT or ≥10× EWT, Wiktionary: first sense archaic); corpora 5 (Torah 0, tales 5, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.6 (Torah alone 0.0); Wiktionary archaic (first sense)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «kitchenmaid» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/K/kitchenmaid/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.