maid

«maid» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: maidservant; young woman — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

kind

archaic sense

modern equivalent

maidservant; young woman

part of speech

noun (a maid, maids)

meaning for a pupil

A young woman, or a female servant. tree →

how it differs from today

Today a maid is usually a female servant, such as a hotel cleaner. In these texts "maid" can mean a young woman or a female servant, and "maid-servant" means a female servant, which is an old use.

examples

• And the man increased exceedingly, and had large flocks, and maid-servants and men-servants, and camels and asses. (Torah GEN.30.43, JPS 1917) tree →
• What is the old maid thinking of? (Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen) tree →
• And Abraham prayed unto God; and God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his maid-servants; and they bore children. (Torah GEN.20.17, JPS 1917) tree →

primary record

maid

tests

rate: sense (≥3 uses in the Torah, ≥10× EWT there, Wiktionary: an archaic sense); corpora 371 (Torah 21, tales 350, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 42.0 (Torah alone 49.0); Wiktionary archaic (a sense)

In the corpora

• And the man increased exceedingly, and had large flocks, and maid-servants and men-servants, and camels and asses.
• Can a maid forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire?
• Corn shall make the young men flourish, and new wine the maids.
• I made a covenant with mine eyes; how then should I look upon a maid?
• If I did despise the cause of my man-servant, or of my maid-servant, when they contended with me —

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «maid» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.