maid

noun

1. 1

   datedA girl or an unmarried young woman; maiden.

2. 2

   An adult or adolescent female servant or cleaner (short for maidservant). (In feudal times this could be anyone from a high-ranking assistant to a low-ranking cleaner.)

   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.

3. 3

   archaicA virgin, now female but originally one of either gender.

   You are betrothed both to a maid and man.

verb

1. 1

   rareTo serve as lady's maid to, to wait upon.

   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.

Forms

plural

maids

past tense

maided

past participle

maided

present participle

maiding

third person singular

maids