domestic help

1. 1.

   a servant who is paid to perform menial tasks around the household

   Synonymsdomestichouse servant

   Broaderservant

   Narrowerayahhome helphousekeepermaidskivvy

Questions about domestic help

What does domestic help mean?

domestic help means "a servant who is paid to perform menial tasks around the household".

What is another word for domestic help?

Close synonyms include domestic, house servant. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is domestic help a common word?

domestic help is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.