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housemaid

noun

ˈhau̇s-ˌmād

Definition of housemaid

as in housekeeper

a female domestic servant became both nurse and housemaid to the elderly man

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Recent Examples of housemaid This is Danish-Egyptian filmmaker May el-Toukhy’s Woman Unknown, the tale of a housemaid on the precipice of marrying her wealthy, widowed employer. — Radhika Seth, Vogue, 14 Aug. 2026 As a live-in housemaid for one of the town’s two Jewish families, Lautenschläger saw the lies behind Nazi propaganda. — Fern Schumer Chapman, Chicago Tribune, 5 Aug. 2026 Look no further than Krieps’s freethinking housemaid, Bridget. — Savannah Walsh, Vanity Fair, 4 Aug. 2026 Trying to escape her past, Millie (Sweeney) accepts a job as a live-in housemaid for the wealthy Nina (Seyfried) and Andrew Winchester (Sklenar). — Matt Grobar, Deadline, 11 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for housemaid

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When his son suddenly turns up alive and well, Mark and his psychiatrist wife, Abigail (Kerry Washington), realize that the kidnapper accidentally took the child of Ramón (Luis Gerardo Méndez), their housekeeper’s undocumented day-laborer boyfriend.

— Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 8 Oct. 2026
Everyone from the front-desk employees to the housekeepers to the yoga instructors were helpful and attentive.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2026

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Adelaide said, with a vehemence that frightened Masha, the maid trying to spoon medicine into her clenched mouth.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 13 Oct. 2026
This is the kind of show where an opulent tea party is dramatized not just by many different plates of fancy pastries, fancy wreaths and lots of furniture, but by having all that stuff carted in by a dozen or so butlers, maids and other servants.

— Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 1 Oct. 2026

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