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A maid is a woman whose job is to clean a house, hotel room, or other building. In old stories, 'maid' also meant a young woman or girl - you still see this old meaning in fairy tales, like 'a fair maid,' and in words like 'mermaid'.
女傭、清潔女工；(較舊)少女
原始詞典資料9 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。
Maidname
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astrologyastronomyhuman-sciencesThe constellation and zodiacal sign Virgo.
- Virgo, the Maid, guideth the Womb, Midriff and Guts.
- The diamond is said to typify innocence, and it is also associated with Virgo, the maid, in the Signs of the Zodiac, whilst the ruby is associated with the sign Aries, the ram.
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maidnoun/meɪd/
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datedA girl or an unmarried young woman; maiden.
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An adult or adolescent female servant or cleaner (short for maidservant). (In feudal times this could be anyone from a high-ranking assistant to a low-ranking cleaner.)
- She was a fat, round little woman, richly apparelled in velvet and lace, […]; and the way she laughed, cackling like a hen, the way she talked to the waiters and the maid,[…]—all these unexpected phenomena impelled one to hysterical mirth, and made one class her with such immortally ludicrous types as Ally Sloper, the Widow Twankey, or Miss Moucher.
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archaicA virgin, now female but originally one of either gender.
- You are betrothed both to a maid and man.
maidverb/meɪd/
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rareTo serve as lady's maid to, to wait upon.
- 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.
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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。