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maid

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"Household worker"

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4 lettersPronunciation /meɪd/Part of speech nounSorted adimStarts with MEnds with D1 cluesVery common crossword word
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Filled answer is this word (MAID).

Definitions

  1. an unmarried girl (especially a virgin)

Word origin

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

Used in a sentence

  • You are betrothed both to a maid and man.
  • And as she did so there came to her a comfortable recollection, an incident of her long-past youth, in the days when she, then Ellen Green, had maided a dear old lady.
  • Virgo, the Maid, guideth the Womb, Midriff and Guts.

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