handmaid

名词 n.
中文释义
美 /ˈhændˌmeɪd/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A maid that waits at hand; a female servant or attendant. historical
    — And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy:
  2. A moth of the species Dysauxes ancilla.

词形变化

handmaids plural handmaiden alternative handmayd alternative,obsolete

词汇关系

相关词
wait on someone hand and foot

词源

Inherited from Middle English handemayde, hand-maide, handmaide, handmayd, hand mayde, hand-mayde, haundmaid, hondemayde, hondmaide, hond-mayde. By surface analysis, compound of hand + maid, the first component in the sense of "ready at hand".
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