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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The Bacevicius sisters, dressed in silk saris draped and pinned by maids at their hotel, got backstage access at the New Delhi wedding they attended.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 8, 2025
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
Almost all women in Ombada 19 and al-Thawara 29 are maids, or used to be maids, working for families in the wealthier parts of Khartoum, Omdurman and Bahri.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2023
Hotel maids and street vendors who work with her organization have received preventative care and eyeglasses through the Medi-Cal expansion.
From Salon ● Jun. 16, 2023
Kings and sheep and whinnying horses and serving maids and beggar boys gathered together in the frosty imagined night.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
