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10 letters · 17 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun in a subordinate position
noun a personal maid or female attendant
originFrom Middle English hande mayden, handmaiden, hand mayden, hand-mayden, handmayden, hondemaiden, hond maydyn, hoondmaydyn. By surface analysis, hand + maiden. Sense 2 is an allusion to Canadian writer Margaret Atwood's novel The Handmaid's Tale (1985), in which "handmaids" are women who serve the male commanders in a patriarchal dystopia.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
Words from these letters
- handmade 15
- handmaid 15
- headman 13
- mehndi 12
- amandine 11
- deadman 11
- haddie 11
- haemin 11
- handed 11
- hemina 11
- hidden 11
- demand 10