English Dictionary

maid

IPA（発音記号）

/meɪd/

名詞

古語

(dated or poetic) A girl or an unmarried young woman; maiden. / A female servant or cleaner (short for maidservant). / (archaic) A virgin, now female but originally one of either gender.

日本語の意味

（古風・詩的用法）少女、乙女、未婚の若い女性 / 女中、家政婦（maidservantの短縮形） / （古語）処女（元々男女どちらも対象。ただし現代では女性を指すことが多い）

The village minstrel sang of a fair maid who wandered the moonlit hills.

村の吟遊詩人は、月明かりの丘をさまよう美しい乙女のことを歌った。

意味（1）

(dated or poetic) A girl or an unmarried young woman; maiden.

意味（2）

A female servant or cleaner (short for maidservant).

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.

意味（3）

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

Crist was a mayde and shapen as a man.

maids （ plural ）