maid
noun
a female domestic employee who cleans tourist accommodations or does cleaning or other housework in a home.
maids
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pluralof maid.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Aaron Seyedian owns a cleaning business that starts its maids at $27 an hour in New York City.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 13, 2026
Having been friend-zoned, Penelope doesn’t try to include herself in the pool of excited maids throwing themselves at him, enlisting him to play Pygmalion and provide her charm lessons instead.
From Salon ● May 17, 2024
That proved a winning proposition for generations of working people, yielding middle class paychecks for bartenders, restaurant servers, casino dealers and maids.
From New York Times ● Feb. 5, 2024
The maids who managed to climb up the social ladder became market vendors, selling basic items - like food and clothing - to earn a living.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2023
“Will you not fall down the steep bank? ’Tis a far distance to the bottom of the ravine, and—” He stopped suddenly, because one of the maids appeared.
From "The Door in the Wall" by Marguerite de Angeli
