Usually means: Servant, often assisting with childbirth.
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We found 22 dictionaries that define the word handmaid:

General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. handmaid: Merriam-Webster
  2. handmaid: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. handmaid: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. handmaid: Collins English Dictionary
  5. handmaid: Vocabulary.com
  6. Handmaid, handmaid: Wordnik
  7. handmaid: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. handmaid: Wiktionary
  9. handmaid: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. handmaid: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Handmaid, handmaid: Dictionary.com
  12. handmaid: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Handmaid, The Handmaid (disambiguation), The Handmaid: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Handmaid: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. handmaid: Rhymezone
  16. Handmaid: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. handmaid: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. handmaid: FreeDictionary.org
  19. handmaid: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. handmaid: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. handmaid: Encyclopedia

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Handmaid: Easton Bible

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Definitions from Wiktionary (handmaid)

▸ noun:  (now historical) A maid that waits at hand; a female servant or attendant.
▸ noun:  A moth of the species Dysauxes ancilla.

Similar:
servant, handmaiden, handmaidenhood, woman, housemaiden, maiden, house maid, best maid, domestic, suivante, more...

Opposite:
master, lord, boss, owner

Adjectives:
humble, mere, faithful, little, egyptian, poor, willing, demure, mine, useful, lowly
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Similar:
servant, handmaiden, handmaidenhood, woman, housemaiden, maiden, house maid, best maid, domestic, suivante, more...

Opposite:
master, lord, boss, owner

Adjectives:
humble, mere, faithful, little, egyptian, poor, willing, demure, mine, useful, lowly



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