maid - What does it mean?

Noun

(en-noun)

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

Note - maid is often used in the common or species names of flowering plants.

A female servant or cleaner (short for maidservant).

* |title=The Mirror and the Lamp

|chapter=2 citation |passage=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.}}

(archaic) A virgin of either gender.

* 1380+ , (Geoffrey Chaucer), (The Canterbury Tales)

Crist was a mayde and shapen as a man.

* 1601 , (William Shakespeare), (Twelfth Night)

You are betrothed both to a maid and man.