MAID


Meaning of MAID in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

maid of honour

meter maid

old maid

parlour maid

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

old

Half of her wants to be a fella, and the other half's a frustrated old maid .

No, it went Prudence was a rich, ugly old maid courted by Incapacity.

She didn't want false teeth; they would make her look like an old maid .

In his will he left £12 to be given to twelve old maids who were to act as pall bearers.

She was an old maid and, I would guess, far too peculiar to gather other suitors.

There is one who has been with us a long time - but then those are old maids of course.

An old maid , perhaps, but what had Prudence accomplished to get rich?

young

Out there, somewhere, is a man or woman who callously stabbed that young maid to death.

A young maid , dressed in dark blue with a white lacy front and a white cap, opened the door.

The door opened again, this time with a gentle touch, and the young Sri Lankan maid came in.

There's a young maid lying dead.

■ NOUN

kitchen

Often, one would be trained to carry out chores normally done by a kitchen maid .

On the night of the dinner-party, it seems, the kitchen maid has allowed the meat to scorch.

Her admitted object was the instruction of the kitchen maid , who had absorbed none of Mrs Geary's genius.

A kitchen maid was usually the most menial servant in a house.

Having been dismissed as a kitchen maid , she harnesses her poetry to her teapot.

Phoebe needs a new kitchen maid .

■ VERB

tell

You can also tell your maid when you like dinner served.

work

They have gone to Rio to work as maids .

The sisters were separated, Lore working as a maid and the others going to foster parents.

It brought back sad memories of when I worked as a kennel maid .

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

A maid pushed her cleaning cart down the path toward the cottages out back.

He had more than an hour to fill in before the meal: he had a maid bring him beer.

One afternoon as he was hacking away on his violin, a maid appeared with a message from below.

She became a ward maid in a hospital.

The maid came into the room with a platter of sliced beef.

Weekly maid and household laundry service included.

Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary.      Дополнительный английский словарь Longman DOCE5.