maid英语原文释义、词形变化、词源和词汇关系

英文释义

名词 n.

A girl or an unmarried young woman; maiden. dated,poetic
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.
A virgin, now female but originally one of either gender. archaic

— You are betrothed both to a maid and man.

动词 v.

To serve as lady's maid to, to wait upon. rare,transitive

— 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.

词形变化

maids plural maids present,singular,third-person maiding participle,present maided participle,past maided past

词汇关系

衍生词

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词源

词源 1

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”).

词源 2

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”).