different between maid vs maidless

English

Etymology

From Middle English mayde, maide, abbreviation of maiden. Ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *magaþ, from Proto-Germanic *magaþs (“maid, virgin”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /me?d/
• Rhymes: -e?d
• Homophone: made

Noun

maid (plural maids)

1. (dated or poetic) A girl or an unmarried young woman; maiden.
2. A female servant or cleaner (short for maidservant).
3. (archaic) A virgin, now female but originally one of either gender.
   • 1380+, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales

     Crist was a mayde and shapen as a man.

   • 1601, William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

     You are betrothed both to a maid and man.

Usage notes

Maid, in the sense of a girl or unmarried woman, is often used in the common (species) names of flowering plants.

Synonyms

• (young female person): damsel, maiden
• (female servant): ancilla, handmaiden, lady-in-waiting, maiden, maidservant, servingmaid, servingwoman, womanservant
• (female cleaner): chambermaid (in a hotel), charlady (in a house), charwoman (in a house), cleaning lady (in a house)

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• Dima, Madi, aim'd, amid, diam, diam.

Cebuano

Etymology

From English maid, Middle English mayde, maide, abbreviation of maiden. Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *magaþs (“maid, virgin”).

Noun

maid

1. A female servant or cleaner; a maidservant, a housemaid.

Synonyms

• (maid): katabang, muchacha, mutsatsa

Estonian

Etymology 1

Noun

maid

1. partitive plural of maa

Etymology 2

Noun

maid

1. partitive singular of mai
2. nominative plural of mai

Ludian

Etymology

Akin to Finnish maito.

Noun

maid

1. milk

Northern Sami

Pronunciation

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /?majt/

Etymology 1

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Adverb

maid

1. also, too

Further reading

• Koponen, Eino; Ruppel, Klaas; Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002-2008) Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages?^[2], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Pronoun

maid

1. accusative/genitive plural of mii

Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mað?/

Verb

·maid

1. third-person singular present indicative conjunct of maidid

Veps

Etymology

Related to Finnish maito.

Noun

maid

1. milk

Inflection

Derived terms

• hapanmaid
• pihtimaid
• rahtmaid
• maidnedal'

References

• Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007) , “??????”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovar? [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika

English

Etymology

maid +? -less

Adjective

maidless (not comparable)

1. Without a maid (female servant).
   • 1933, Better Food (volume 38, page 27)

     Such table decoration is always to be preferred to overlavish floral displays, and in the case of the maidless service we must bear in mind that platters and serving dishes will be placed upon the table […]

Anagrams

• elasmids, medial s's, misdeals, misleads