| 单词 | maid |
| 释义 | maid (once / 121 pages) 1n 2n A maid is a household worker who cleans and performs various other tasks. Today, only very wealthy people have maids — it's much more common to hire an occasional housekeeper or cleaner instead. In the US, it's uncommon to find a household with an actual maid, a servant who lives in the home and tidies it up, also doing jobs like ironing, grocery shopping, and cooking. In the old days, wealthy families employed maids who wore uniforms and sometimes waited on one individual woman, helping her dress herself and cleaning up after her. Maid, short for maiden, originally meant "unmarried woman." WORD FAMILYmaid: maidhood, maids USAGE EXAMPLESHe hired the Scottish émigré Williamina Fleming, a former teacher, as a maid after her husband abandoned her in a “delicate condition.” New York Times(Dec 26, 2016) With no increase in the federal minimum wage — it’s been the same since 2009 — the eight maids received the same basic compensation as last year. New York Times(Dec 22, 2016) As the humble maid Aibileen Clark during the civil rights movement of the 1960s, Davis wows with emotional depth and nuance. Los Angeles Times(Dec 22, 2016) 1 n a female domestic 2Syn|Hypo|Hyper amah, housemaid, maidservant chambermaid, fille de chambre a maid who is employed to clean and care for bedrooms (now primarily in hotels) handmaid, handmaidena personal maid or female attendant lady's maida maid who is a lady's personal attendant parlormaid, parlourmaida maid in a private home whose duties are to care for the parlor and the table and to answer the door domestic, domestic help, house servant a servant who is paid to perform menial tasks around the household n an unmarried girl (especially a virgin) Syn|Exp|Hypo|Hyper maiden Io (Greek mythology) a maiden seduced by Zeus; when Hera was about to discover them together Zeus turned her into a white heifer damoiselle, damosel, damozel, damsel, demoiselle a young unmarried woman fille, girl, miss, missy, young lady, young woman a young woman |
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