1
: an unmarried girl or woman especially when young : virgin
2
a
b
: a woman or girl employed to do domestic work
Examples of maid in a Sentence
She hired a maid to do the cleaning.
hired a maid to do the housework after the baby was born
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You as a cook, a chef, a butler, a maid, the engineer.
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Lexy Perez, HollywoodReporter, 16 June 2025
Often Black women were relegated to stereotypical roles as maids, mammies, or exoticized figures.
—Ime Ekpo, Forbes.com, 8 June 2025
Proclamations that a certain technology is about to radically alter our everyday lives are almost always proven wrong: There are no flying cars or robot maids; our life expectancies are holding steady if not declining; the iPod did not, after all, destroy the album as a creative format.
—Pitchfork, 6 June 2025
How in 150 years, Meghan Markle's family went from cotton slaves to royalty via freedom in the U.S. Civil War... while her dad's ancestors included a maid at Windsor Castle.
—Jack Royston, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 June 2025
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Lexy Perez, HollywoodReporter, 16 June 2025
Often Black women were relegated to stereotypical roles as maids, mammies, or exoticized figures.
—Ime Ekpo, Forbes.com, 8 June 2025
Proclamations that a certain technology is about to radically alter our everyday lives are almost always proven wrong: There are no flying cars or robot maids; our life expectancies are holding steady if not declining; the iPod did not, after all, destroy the album as a creative format.
—Pitchfork, 6 June 2025
How in 150 years, Meghan Markle's family went from cotton slaves to royalty via freedom in the U.S. Civil War... while her dad's ancestors included a maid at Windsor Castle.
—Jack Royston, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 June 2025
See All Example Sentences for maid
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“Maid.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/maid. Accessed 27 Jun. 2025.
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maid
noun1
: an unmarried girl or woman
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: maiden entry 1
2
: a female servant
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