handmaiden

Noun

Meaning

A maid that waits at hand; a female servant or attendant.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

servant handmaid butler abigail lackey biddy wench help puppet char minion footman gentlewoman page domestic
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Antonyms

lord plenipotentiary householder proprietress host master
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Hypernyms

maid maidservant housemaid amah subsidiarity subordinateness

Examples

Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden. Karl Kraus

Leisure is the handmaiden of the devil. Branch Rickey

When Poetry thus keeps its place as the handmaiden of piety, it shall attain not a poor perishable wreath, but a crown that fadeth not away. John Wesley

Life is not a thing of knowing only--nay, mere knowledge has properly no place at all save as it becomes the handmaiden of feeling and emotions. Learned Hand

Anxiety is the handmaiden of contemporary ambition. Alain de Botton

The creative scientist lives in a 'wildness of logic,' where reason is the handmaiden and not the master. Marston Morse

Close letter words and terms

handmade production handmade weaving handmaid handmaidenhood handmaidenly handmake