noun
Meaning 1
A female domestic worker responsible for cleaning a house.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
housemaid
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General-American: /ˈhaʊsˌmeɪd/
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noun
Meaning 2
A housewife.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: derogatory
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verb
Meaning 3
To be a housemaid.
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verb
Meaning 4
To wait on someone hand on foot, to watch them.
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verb
Meaning 5
To clean, as a housemaid.
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noun
Meaning 6
a female domestic
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: maid, maidservant, amah
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Broader terms: domestic, domestic help, house servant
Narrower terms: chambermaid, fille de chambre, handmaid, handmaiden, lady's maid, parlormaid, parlourmaid
History
Etymology
From house + maid.
Across languages
Translations
14 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Armenian: աղախին (aġaxin) — female servant responsible for cleaning a house
- Bulgarian: прислужница (prislužnica) — female servant responsible for cleaning a house
- Catalan: minyona — female servant responsible for cleaning a house
- Finnish: kotiapulainen — female servant responsible for cleaning a house
- Finnish: sisäkkö — female servant responsible for cleaning a house
- French: femme de ménage — female servant responsible for cleaning a house
- Greek: οικιακή βοηθός (oikiakí voïthós) — female servant responsible for cleaning a house
- Irish: cailín tí — female servant responsible for cleaning a house
- Irish: cailín aimsire — female servant responsible for cleaning a house
- Brunei Malay: amah — female servant responsible for cleaning a house
- Norman: femme dé mênage — female servant responsible for cleaning a house
- Spanish: mucama — female servant responsible for cleaning a house
- Spanish: fámula — female servant responsible for cleaning a house
- Swedish: hembiträde — female servant responsible for cleaning a house