maid, maidservant, housemaid, amah
(noun) a female domestic
Source: WordNet® 3.1
housemaid (plural housemaids)
A female domestic worker attached to the non-servant quarter part of the house, as opposed to a scullery maid.
(derogatory) A housewife.
housemaid (third-person singular simple present housemaids, present participle housemaiding, simple past and past participle housemaided)
To be a housemaid.
To wait on someone hand on foot, to watch them.
Source: Wiktionary
House"maid`, n.
Definition: A female servant employed to do housework, esp. to take care of the rooms. Housemaid's knee (Med.), a swelling over the knee, due to an enlargement of the bursa in the front of the kneepan; -- so called because frequently occurring in servant girls who work upon their knees.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
23 June 2025
(noun) members of a family line; “his people have been farmers for generations”; “are your people still alive?”
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.
