maid
substantivoverbocorrente nos diálogos
- Estados Unidos//meɪd//
- Escócia//med//
- //meid//
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.)
substantivo
- 1
antiquadoA girl or an unmarried young woman; maiden.
- 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
arcaicoA virgin, now female but originally one of either gender.
You are betrothed both to a maid and man.
Etimologia
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”).
verbo
- 1
raroTo 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.
Formas
- plural
- maids
- pretérito
- maided
- particípio passado
- maided
- gerúndio
- maiding
- 3.ª pessoa do singular
- maids
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