What part of speech is maids?

Maids can be categorized as a noun.

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Parts of speech

  • 1. maids is a noun, plural of maid.

Inflections

Noun

What does maids mean?

Definitions

Noun

maid - an unmarried girl (especially a virgin)
maid - a female domestic

Examples of maids

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1. noun Beats having one "cleaning lady" who took twice as long and did not do a very through job like the "maids" did!
2. noun However, like America, Japan is predominantly a middle-class, middle-income country, and so wives do not employ maids, but attend to everything themselves.
3. noun How many maids does that lady want to employ?
4. noun It has become common practise to employ foreigners working abroad from Asian countries as maids.
5. noun Just as there are few fat "old maids," there are few fat bachelors.
6. noun If he went near the farmyard belonging to the count, he was pushed and knocked about, for the men and the maids said he was so horrible ugly; but he was used to all this, for nobody loved him.
7. noun Some families have maids.
8. noun There are only three maids in this hotel.
9. noun Two old maids live there.
10. noun Through the clear wintry sunshine the bells this morning rang from the gray church tower amid the leafless elms, and up the walk the villagers trooped in their best dresses and their best faces — the latter a little reddened by the sharp wind: mere redness in the middle aged; in the maids, wonderful bloom to the eyes of their lovers — and took their places decently in the ancient pews.
11. noun Jane Andrews is to be the queen and I am to be one of her maids of honor.
12. noun This was what she did: she touched with her wand everything in the palace (except the King and Queen),—governesses, maids of honor, ladies of the bedchamber, gentlemen, officers, stewards, cooks, undercooks, kitchen maids, guards with their porters, pages, and footmen; she likewise touched all the horses which were in the stables, the cart horses, the hunters and the saddle horses, the grooms, the great dogs in the outward court, and little Mopsey, too, the Princess's spaniel, which was lying on the bed. As soon as she touched them they all fell asleep, not to awake again until their mistress did, that they might be ready to wait upon her when she wanted them.
13. noun Dionysophanes, the master of the estate, now arrived with his wife Clearista ; and great was the stir occasioned by their horses, varlets and maids.
14. noun Perhaps he has seen some other girl whom he deems preferable to me among his mother's maids. Farewell Daphnis! May you be happy; as for myself I cannot survive it.
15. noun Their mistress is Emily: she has many maids.
Sentence  
noun
Beats having one "cleaning lady" who took twice as long and did not do a very through job like the "maids" did!
However, like America, Japan is predominantly a middle-class, middle-income country, and so wives do not employ maids, but attend to everything themselves.
How many maids does that lady want to employ?
It has become common practise to employ foreigners working abroad from Asian countries as maids.
Just as there are few fat "old maids," there are few fat bachelors.
If he went near the farmyard belonging to the count, he was pushed and knocked about, for the men and the maids said he was so horrible ugly; but he was used to all this, for nobody loved him.
Some families have maids.
There are only three maids in this hotel.
Two old maids live there.
Through the clear wintry sunshine the bells this morning rang from the gray church tower amid the leafless elms, and up the walk the villagers trooped in their best dresses and their best faces — the latter a little reddened by the sharp wind: mere redness in the middle aged; in the maids, wonderful bloom to the eyes of their lovers — and took their places decently in the ancient pews.
Jane Andrews is to be the queen and I am to be one of her maids of honor.
This was what she did: she touched with her wand everything in the palace (except the King and Queen),—governesses, maids of honor, ladies of the bedchamber, gentlemen, officers, stewards, cooks, undercooks, kitchen maids, guards with their porters, pages, and footmen; she likewise touched all the horses which were in the stables, the cart horses, the hunters and the saddle horses, the grooms, the great dogs in the outward court, and little Mopsey, too, the Princess's spaniel, which was lying on the bed. As soon as she touched them they all fell asleep, not to awake again until their mistress did, that they might be ready to wait upon her when she wanted them.
Dionysophanes, the master of the estate, now arrived with his wife Clearista ; and great was the stir occasioned by their horses, varlets and maids.
Perhaps he has seen some other girl whom he deems preferable to me among his mother's maids. Farewell Daphnis! May you be happy; as for myself I cannot survive it.
Their mistress is Emily: she has many maids.

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