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A housemaid is a woman paid to clean someone else’s house. She may sweep, make beds, wash dishes, and keep rooms tidy. The word feels a little old. British families used it a lot when many homes had live-in servants; today people more often say cleaner, , or domestic worker, and the work is often by the hour, not by someone who lives in the house. You still meet housemaid in older stories, period films, and some job ads. Though actually, maid by itself can sound old-fashioned or even in careful modern talk, so many speakers pick a plainer job name.
女傭、女僕；台灣口語更常說幫傭、打掃的阿姨（外籍幫傭常說外傭）
原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
housemaidnoun/ˈhaʊsˌmeɪd/
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A female domestic worker responsible for cleaning a house.
- With a dramatic gesture, he pointed to a large splash of candle grease on the floor by the writing-table. "It must have been done since yesterday, otherwise a good housemaid would have at once removed it with blotting-paper and a hot iron. […]”
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derogatoryA housewife.
housemaidverb/ˈhaʊsˌmeɪd/
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To be a housemaid.
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To wait on someone hand on foot, to watch them.
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To clean, as a housemaid.
- Giving that up, she took a broom and a duster and went upstairs to housemaid Mrs Dibble's bedroom, with her head tied up in a coloured scarf. It was a dusty, snuffy job, for penuriousness in Mrs Dibble refused to throw anything away, including dirt, and if anything fell on the floor it remained there.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。