Difference between Maiden and Maid

What is the difference between Maiden and Maid?

Maiden as a noun is a girl or an unmarried young woman, often used poetically while Maid as a noun is a girl or an unmarried young woman; maiden.

Maiden

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: virgin (about a female, human or animal) without offspring like/ fitting a (young, unmarried) maiden describing a first occurrence or event describing an over in which no runs are scored

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A girl or an unmarried young woman, often used poetically A female virgin A race horse without any victory ('virgin record') A Scottish counterpart of the guillotine a maiden over

Example sentence: Well, I do have some maiden aunts that are not quite like the aunts in the book, but I definitely do have a couple of them, and a couple of old aunties.

Maid

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A girl or an unmarried young woman; maiden.A female servant or cleaner.A virgin of any gender.

Example sentence: An offensive war, I believe to be wrong and would therefore have nothing to do with it, having no right to meddle with another man's property, his ox or his ass, his man servant or his maid servant or anything this is his.

We hope you now know whether to use Maiden or Maid in your sentence.

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