handmaid, handmaiden
(noun) a personal maid or female attendant
handmaid, handmaiden, servant
(noun) in a subordinate position; “theology should be the handmaiden of ethics”; “the state cannot be a servant of the church”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
handmaid (plural handmaids)
A maid that waits at hand; a female servant or attendant.
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Source: Wiktionary
Hand"maid", Hand"maiden, n.
Definition: A maid that waits at hand; a female servant or attendant.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
11 May 2025
(noun) a light drumstick with a rounded head that is used to strike such percussion instruments as chimes, kettledrums, marimbas, glockenspiels, etc.
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
