Definition of "maid"

maid

/meɪd/

noun
plural maids
1. (dated or poetic) A girl or an unmarried young woman; maiden.
2. A female servant or cleaner (short for maidservant).
  Quotations
  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.
  1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 2, in The Mirror and the Lamp‎
3. (archaic) A virgin, now female but originally one of either gender.
  Quotations
  You are betrothed both to a maid and man.
  c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act V, scene i]