maid woman who does cleaning, washing, serving work in a house All three brothers had settled themselves in the area , Nathan's being a pleasant semi-detached residence of three storeys . It was ample for a small family of four of modest intent , yet large enough for a maid and a nurse to be employed The food was served by three maids and a man who gave the impression he was the major-domo of the house . But I will not be ordered this way and that , she said , I will do the work in my own time , as I choose , for my sister has no right to treat me like a maid , to give orders and expect me to run her errands . type of work kitchen lady's His wife and the kitchen maid ( every middle class Filipino household has a maid ) would bring us food . I remember she used to tell me stories of a wonderful place where she'd had a job once as a lady's maid . room maid woman who cleans rooms in a hotel maid service Lone worker protection is also an issue for large hotels , particularly at night when the staff and guest ratio is greatly reduced , and so the system is also integrated with personal panic alarms , carried for example by room service or maids . As Clare went out Carolyn quickly and unexpectedly closed the door behind her and said ` Thankyou , ' as if she 'd been shown her hotel room by a maid . Room maids told us guests were asking for lighter duvets , and suggested we improve signs as guests were constantly asking for directions . old term for an unmarried young woman ' Twere way down in Dorset or so I hear tell , There lived a young maid , and her name it were Nell'.It involves a pretty young maid of Glaisdale who yearned for her lover's return from an adventurous and perhaps piratical life on the high seas . maid of honour woman who acts as an attendant to the bride at a wedding Our parents will not be at the wedding ; but she has a daughter , who is to be her maid of honour . Which Hollywood star was the maid of honour at Madonna 's wedding to Guy Richie ? woman who is an attendant to royaltyAt court John met and proposed to Mary Shelton , a relation of the Queen Elizabeth and one of her maids of honour . A pretty girl , the daughter of a wealthy local farmer , was chosen in each parish to be the Queen of the May . She was finely attired and was accompanied by about 20 maidsof honour maid of all work maid in earlier times who was responsible for all the work in a house Small houses had one servant a maid of all work who you can see here . The maid of all work was expected to do all the dirty chores around the house and yet still be clean and immaculate to wait on table and answer the door . piece of sturdy, general-purpose machinery It 's a Dell Inspiron 8500 which I 've had for three and a half years . It 's been to America , France , Belgium , the Netherlands , Italy , Germany and Ireland and is about to go on trips to Hungary , Poland and Spain . It 's been used almost every day . It has been a maid of all work , carrying out business and personal tasks for me and for Hels for the whole of that time I then saw that she had the hull of a Fairmile B Class Motor Launch a maid of all work in WW2 and which Rob said were also built in South Africa as Air Sea Rescue vessels . maid service service whereby room cleaning, bed making etc are done by a maid Accomodation 139 apartments , featuring studios , 1-bedroom and 2-bedroom suites , fully equipped and providing full maid service .