Maid vs. Maiden

Maid vs. Maiden — Is There a Difference?
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Difference Between Maid and Maiden

Maidnoun

A girl or an unmarried young woman; maiden.

Maidennoun

A girl or an unmarried young woman.

Maidnoun

A female servant or cleaner (short for maidservant).

Maidennoun

A female virgin.

She's unmarried and still a maiden.

Maidnoun

(archaic) A virgin, now female but originally one of either gender.

Maidennoun

A man with no experience of sex, especially because of deliberate abstention.

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Maidnoun

a female domestic

Maidennoun

A maidservant.

Maidnoun

an unmarried girl (especially a virgin)

Maidennoun

A clothes maiden.

Maidennoun

An unmarried woman, especially an older woman.

Maidennoun

(horse racing) A racehorse without any victory, i.e. one having a "virgin record".

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Maidennoun

(horse racing) A horse race in which all starters are maidens.

Maidennoun

(historical) A Scottish counterpart of the guillotine.

Maidennoun

(cricket) A maiden over.

Maidennoun

(obsolete) A machine for washing linen.

Maidennoun

(Wicca) Maiden

Maidenadjective

Virgin.

Maidenadjective

(of a female, human or animal) Without offspring.

Maidenadjective

Like or befitting a (young, unmarried) maiden.

Maidenadjective

(figuratively) Being a first occurrence or event.

The Titanic sank on its maiden voyage.After Edmund Burke's maiden speech, William Pitt the Elder said Burke had "spoken in such a manner as to stop the mouths of all Europe" and that the Commons should congratulate itself on acquiring such a member.

Maidenadjective

(cricket) Being an over in which no runs are scored.

Maidenadjective

Fresh; innocent; unpolluted; pure; hitherto unused.

Maidenadjective

(of a fortress) Never having been captured or violated.

Maidenadjective

(of a tree) Grown from seed and never pruned

Maidennoun

an unmarried girl (especially a virgin)

Maidennoun

(cricket) an over in which no runs are scored

Maidenadjective

serving to set in motion;

the magazine's inaugural issuethe initiative phase in the negotiationsan initiatory step toward a treatyhis first (or maiden) speech in Congressthe liner's maiden voyage