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DOMESTIC HELP
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Dictionary entry overview: What does domestic help mean?
• DOMESTIC HELP (noun)
The noun DOMESTIC HELP has 1 sense:
1. a servant who is paid to perform menial tasks around the household
Familiarity information: DOMESTIC HELP used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A servant who is paid to perform menial tasks around the household
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
domestic; domestic help; house servant
Hypernyms ("domestic help" is a kind of...):
retainer; servant (a person working in the service of another (especially in the household))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "domestic help"):
ayah ((in India) a native nursemaid who looks after children)
home help (a person hired to help in another's home (especially one employed by a local authority to help the infirm with domestic work))
housekeeper (a servant who is employed to perform domestic task in a household)
amah; housemaid; maid; maidservant (a female domestic)
skivvy; slavey (a female domestic servant who does all kinds of menial work)
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