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criada — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • maid noun A woman employed to clean a house or do domestic work.
  • maidservant noun A female servant; a maid.
  • servant noun A person employed to do household or personal work for someone else.
  • wench noun An old-fashioned or humorous term for a young woman, sometimes used at Renaissance fairs or in historical fiction.

Senses

criada is used for these senses in English:

  • handmaid (now, historical) A maid that waits at hand; a female servant or attendant.
  • maid A female servant or cleaner (short for maidservant).
  • maidservant A female servant; a maid.
  • wench (archaic) A woman servant; a maidservant.

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.

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