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Definition of Handmaid
1. Noun. In a subordinate position. "The state cannot be a servant of the church"
Generic synonyms: Subordinateness, Subsidiarity
Derivative terms: Serve
2. Noun. A personal maid or female attendant.
Definition of Handmaid
1. n. A maid that waits at hand; a female servant or attendant.
Definition of Handmaid
1. Noun. A maid that waits at hand; a female servant or attendant. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Handmaid
1. a female servant [n -S] - See also: servant
Lexicographical Neighbors of Handmaid
Literary usage of Handmaid
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Englishman's Hebrew and Chaldee Concordance of the Old Testament by George V. Wigram (1866)
"2:13.spoken friendly unto thine handmaid, — like unto one of thine handmaidens.
1 Sa. 1:18. Let thine handmaid mid grace 8:16. menservants, ..."
2. The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments (1903)
"6 And thy handmaid had two sons, and they two strove together in the field, ...
7 And, behold, the whole family is risen against thine handmaid, ..."
3. Tseʾenah U-reʾenah =: Tzeénah Ureénah : "Go Ye and See" : a Rabbinical by Yaakov ben Yitzchak Ashkenazi, Paul Isaac Hershon (1885)
"This handmaid was the daughter of Pharaoh king of Egypt; " for," said Pharoah, "
better let my daughter be a handmaid of Abraham rather than a lady in the ..."
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