MAIDSERVANT

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

A female domestic

Synonyms:

amah; housemaid; maid; maidservant

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("maidservant" is a kind of...):

domestic; domestic help; house servant (a servant who is paid to perform menial tasks around the household)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "maidservant"):

chambermaid; fille de chambre (a maid who is employed to clean and care for bedrooms (now primarily in hotels))

handmaid; handmaiden (a personal maid or female attendant)

lady's maid (a maid who is a lady's personal attendant)

parlormaid; parlourmaid (a maid in a private home whose duties are to care for the parlor and the table and to answer the door)