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# maid

«maid» in Mova's school dictionary: **a woman whose job is to clean and do housework in a hotel…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a maid, maids)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A maid is a woman whose job is to clean and do housework in a hotel or someone's house. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/maid/#m1)

2) (old use) A maid is a girl or young unmarried woman: «a fair maid». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/maid/#m2)

3) A bridesmaid or maid of honour is a girl or woman who helps the bride at a wedding. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/maid/#m3)

4) An old maid is an older woman who has never married, a term that is now seen as old-fashioned and sometimes unkind. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/maid/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In stories and history lessons, rich families had maids and servants; in fairy tales a «maid» is a young woman. In hotels today, room cleaners are sometimes called maids, though «housekeeper» is more polite. Phrases: «maid of honour», «housemaid», «old maid» (old-fashioned, unkind), «Maid Marian» (from Robin Hood).

### examples

- The hotel maid cleaned our room every morning. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/maid/#x1)
- In the old house, a maid lit the fires at dawn. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/maid/#x2)
- The milk maid carried two buckets on a pole. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/maid/#x3)
- My sister will be the maid of honour at the wedding. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/maid/#x4)
- Maid Marian was Robin Hood's friend. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/maid/#x5)
- The story tells of a poor maid who married a prince. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/maid/#x6)
- Long ago, many girls went into service as maids. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/maid/#x7)
- What is the old maid thinking of? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/maid/#x8)

### note

Countable: maids. Homophone: «made» (past of make) sounds the same. «Old maid» is old-fashioned and unkind; also a card game. Today «cleaner» or «housekeeper» is the more respectful job title.

### 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/school/M/maid/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.