maidservant|maidservants in English

noun

['meɪd'sɜrvnt /-sɜːvnt]

female servant

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1. 15 It was an everyday occurrence for the gentry to bed maidservants.

2. In ancient Egypt, operating the hand mill seems to have been the lot of maidservants.

3. She became the maidservant of the wife of a leprous Syrian army chief, Naaman.

4. Now if we had been sold for mere men slaves and for mere maidservants, I should have kept silent.

5. Sarah complained bitterly to Abraham and humiliated Hagar, causing the maidservant to flee. —Genesis 16:1-6.

6. 16 At his wife’s urging, Abraham agreed to produce a potential heir through Sarah’s Egyptian maidservant, Hagar.

7. Ayah definition: (in the East, Africa, and other parts of the former British Empire ) a maidservant , Meaning, pronunciation, translations and examples

8. Amah definition: (in India and East Asia, esp formerly) a nurse or maidservant , esp one of Chinese origin Meaning, pronunciation, translations and examples

9. I was told that no one should be allowed to enter these chambers, except for guards and maidservants, as per the King's orders.

10. Ancillary Meaning: "subservient, subordinate, serving as an aid," 1660s, from Latin ancillaris "relating to maidservants,"… See definitions of Ancillary.

11. Artemisia painted subjects that were traditionally the preserve of male artists and for the male gaze; transforming meek maidservants into courageous conspirators and victims into survivors

12. 1960s Singapore – Amahs (by Tim Light) amah [ˈɑːmə ˈæmə] n (in the East, esp formerly) a nurse or maidservant, esp one of Chinese origin

13. The adjective Ancillary originally meant "relating to maidservants" from the Latin, but the element of a female servant has fallen away and now the word merely refers to …

14. Noun (in the East, Africa, and other parts of the former British Empire) a maidservant, nursemaid, or governess, esp one of Indian or Malay originCompare amah Word Origin for Ayah C18: from Hindi …

15. (in the East, esp formerly) a nurse or maidservant, esp one of Chinese originCompare ayah Word Origin for Amah C19: from Portuguese ama nurse, wet nurse Collins English Dictionary - Complete & …

16. As her ancestress Sarah did with Hagar, Rachel brings her maidservant Bilhah and offers her to Jacob as a secondary wife in order that, as Rachel says, “I, even I, may get children from her.”

17. Leviticus 25:44 says: “Both thy bondmen, and thy Bondmaids, which thou shalt have, shall be of the heathen that are round about you; of them shall ye buy bondmen and Bondmaids.” Exodus 21:7 gives rules when “a man sell his daughter to be a maidservant.” Would high school students discuss buying slaves — and selling daughters into