- Now Chiefly Literary a girl or young unmarried woman
- Obs. a virgin
- Now Rare old maid
- a girl or woman servant: often in compounds: barmaid, housemaid
Origin of maid
Middle English maide, contr. from maidenmaid Idioms
the Maid
name for Joan of Arc
A hotel maid at work.
- A live-in housekeeper who cooks and cleans for you is an example of a maid.
- A young unmarried girl is an example of a maid.
The definition of a maid is a female who is hired to do domestic tasks like cleaning house and cooking, or a young unmarried female.
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maid
noun
- Archaic a. An unmarried girl or woman.b. A woman or girl who is a virgin.
- a. A housemaid or chambermaid.b. A woman servant.
Origin of maid
Middle English maide from Old English mægden ; see maghu- in Indo-European roots.THE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIFTH EDITION by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Copyright © 2016, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Noun
(plural maids)
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maid - Computer Definition
(Massive Array of Idle Disks) Active archiving that uses disk drives instead of tape. Most of the drives in a MAID array are idle most of the time, but can be revved up and read faster than searching sequentially through magnetic tape. MAID libraries typically do not use RAID technology because each read and write in most RAID configurations uses several drives. The concept behind MAID is to have an enormous amount of data quickly available at the least cost, and spinning disks require power and generate heat, which requires cooling. Some Active, Some Passive A MAID system may be built with a small ratio of spinning disks that serve as a cache for the non-spinning, passive disks. If a request is not found in the cache, the appropriate passive disks are powered up. See active archiving, WORO and RAID.
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Sentence Examples
- The maid lost her balance and toppled over.
- "You want to make him"--little Nicholas--"into an old maid like yourself!
- The little princess grumbled to her maid that her bed was badly made.
- Presently a maid appeared and said that the Princess Victoria was "in a sweet sleep and could not be disturbed."
- A tea kettle was already whistling when they entered, and the maid rushed across the kitchen to grab it.
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