maidservant

Other forms of maidservant

plural

maidservants·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about maidservant

What does maidservant mean?

maidservant means "a female domestic".

How many syllables are in maidservant?

maidservant has 3 syllables: maid-ser-vant. The stress falls on "maid".

What is another word for maidservant?

Close synonyms include maid, housemaid, amah. 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 maidservant a common word?

maidservant is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.