ancilla — meaning in English
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English meaning
Senses
ancilla is used for these senses in English:
- maid A female servant or cleaner (short for maidservant).
- slave A person who is held in servitude as the property of another person, and whose labor (and often also whose body and life) is subject to the owner's volition and control.
- slave-girl A female slave.
maid — full definition
- noun A woman employed to clean a house or do domestic work.
- noun (literary or old-fashioned) A young unmarried woman or girl.
slave — full definition
- noun A person legally owned by another and forced to work without freedom or pay.
- noun A person completely controlled by or devoted to something.
- noun A secondary device controlled by another (master) device.