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as in housekeepers
a female domestic servant
hired a maid to do the housework after the baby was born
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as in girls
a young unmarried woman
a dance where the fair maids and handsome bucks of the village hoped to meet one another
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Recent Examples of maids
But Season Four takes viewers to lower-class settings like the bars where scullery maids and footmen relax, the markets where house staff shop, even the secret drawing rooms where servants eat their breakfast and discuss town gossip.
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Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 2 Feb. 2026
In Jackson, Mississippi during the early 1960s, a young white woman teams up with two Black maids to document the realities of domestic work in segregated households.
—Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 1 Feb. 2026
The camera observes it all, cutting between these maids, cooks, and footmen with a kind of accumulating effect.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 30 Jan. 2026
When the gross lord of the manor tries to assault one of Sophie's fellow maids, Sophie stands up to him, but then the violent creep is about to harm Sophie.
—Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 29 Jan. 2026
This led organically to feelings of love for one’s Black nannies and friendship with the children of your Black live-in maids, but this warmth had to be suppressed.
—Eve Fairbanks, The Dial, 27 Jan. 2026
The unconscionable treatment of maids in Alma’s era finds uncomfortable parallels in the 1980s, when Angelika is both appalled and intrigued by the leering looks of her uncle Uwe (Konstantin Lindhorst).
—Los Angeles Times, 23 Jan. 2026
Made up of several former maids’ rooms with strange proportions, this 323-square-foot Paris apartment that Atelier Opale recently redesigned started off confused and charmless.
—Annabelle Dufraigne, Architectural Digest, 20 Jan. 2026
The renovation is also now 30 years old and, according to a broker who toured the property, was never fully completed, with maids’ rooms upstairs and portions of the home used as offices under Roberts’s ownership.
—Kim Velsey, Curbed, 2 Dec. 2025
Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 2 Feb. 2026
In Jackson, Mississippi during the early 1960s, a young white woman teams up with two Black maids to document the realities of domestic work in segregated households.
—Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 1 Feb. 2026
The camera observes it all, cutting between these maids, cooks, and footmen with a kind of accumulating effect.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 30 Jan. 2026
When the gross lord of the manor tries to assault one of Sophie's fellow maids, Sophie stands up to him, but then the violent creep is about to harm Sophie.
—Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 29 Jan. 2026
This led organically to feelings of love for one’s Black nannies and friendship with the children of your Black live-in maids, but this warmth had to be suppressed.
—Eve Fairbanks, The Dial, 27 Jan. 2026
The unconscionable treatment of maids in Alma’s era finds uncomfortable parallels in the 1980s, when Angelika is both appalled and intrigued by the leering looks of her uncle Uwe (Konstantin Lindhorst).
—Los Angeles Times, 23 Jan. 2026
Made up of several former maids’ rooms with strange proportions, this 323-square-foot Paris apartment that Atelier Opale recently redesigned started off confused and charmless.
—Annabelle Dufraigne, Architectural Digest, 20 Jan. 2026
The renovation is also now 30 years old and, according to a broker who toured the property, was never fully completed, with maids’ rooms upstairs and portions of the home used as offices under Roberts’s ownership.
—Kim Velsey, Curbed, 2 Dec. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for maids
Noun
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Even the housekeepers know what to look out for.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
7 Feb. 2026
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King also said in recent years the hospital doubled the number of housekeepers per shift in its emergency department, and also increased the number of its emergency department transporters by 2%.—
Lisa Schencker,
Chicago Tribune,
6 Jan. 2026
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The Institute for Strategic Dialogue, a non-profit research organization, has tracked nihilistic attacks across the globe, including stabbings in Sweden by teenagers associated with a group called No Lives Matter, and the killing of three girls in northern England.—
Curt Devine,
CNN Money,
10 Feb. 2026
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The Central Yellowjackets won a back-and-forth game over the Manual Crimsons in KHSAA Seventh Region girls basketball.—
Ray Padilla,
Louisville Courier Journal,
10 Feb. 2026
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This is a 1,000 year old tradition where two maidens are chosen to be slaughtered as repentance to one of their goddesses.—
Jesse Whittock,
Deadline,
7 Aug. 2025
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Prized 2-year-olds trained by Bob Baffert ran an impressive 1-2 in their debuts in Sunday’s opening race, a six-furlong test for maidens.—
Bill Center,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
4 Aug. 2025
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“Maids.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/maids. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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