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# maid

«maid» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **maidservant; young woman** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### kind

archaic sense

### modern equivalent

maidservant; young woman

### part of speech

noun (a maid, maids)

### meaning for a pupil

A young woman, or a female servant. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/M/maid/#m1)

### how it differs from today

Today a maid is usually a female servant, such as a hotel cleaner. In these texts "maid" can mean a young woman or a female servant, and "maid-servant" means a female servant, which is an old use.

### examples

- And the man increased exceedingly, and had large flocks, and maid-servants and men-servants, and camels and asses. (Torah GEN.30.43, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/M/maid/#x1)
- What is the old maid thinking of? (Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/M/maid/#x2)
- And Abraham prayed unto God; and God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his maid-servants; and they bore children. (Torah GEN.20.17, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/M/maid/#x3)

### primary record

maid

### tests

rate: sense (≥3 uses in the Torah, ≥10× EWT there, Wiktionary: an archaic sense); corpora 371 (Torah 21, tales 350, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 42.0 (Torah alone 49.0); Wiktionary archaic (a sense)

### In the corpora

- [And the man increased exceedingly, and had large flocks, and maid-servants and men-servants, and camels and asses.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.933/)
- [Can a maid forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.59/)
- [Corn shall make the young men flourish, and new wine the maids.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ZEC.142/)
- [I made a covenant with mine eyes; how then should I look upon a maid?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.780/)
- [If I did despise the cause of my man-servant, or of my maid-servant, when they contended with me —](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.792/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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