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ancilla — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • maid noun A woman employed to clean a house or do domestic work.
  • slave noun A person legally owned by another and forced to work without freedom or pay.

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

  1. noun A woman employed to clean a house or do domestic work.
  2. noun (literary or old-fashioned) A young unmarried woman or girl.

slave — full definition

  1. noun A person legally owned by another and forced to work without freedom or pay.
  2. noun A person completely controlled by or devoted to something.
  3. noun A secondary device controlled by another (master) device.

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