cham·ber·maid

(chām′bər-mād′)

A maid who cleans and cares for bedrooms, as in a hotel.

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chambermaid

(ˈtʃeɪmbəˌmeɪd)

a woman or girl employed to clean and tidy bedrooms, now chiefly in hotels

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

cham•ber•maid

(ˈtʃeɪm bərˌmeɪd)

n.

a maid who cleans bedrooms and bathrooms, as in a hotel.

[1580–90]

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun

chambermaid - a maid who is employed to clean and care for bedrooms (now primarily in hotels)

fille de chambre

housemaid, maid, maidservant, amah - a female domestic

Translations

خَادِمَةٌ في فُنْدُقخادِمَه في فُنْدُق

pokojskáslužebná

stuepige

Stubenmädchen Zimmermädchen

καμαριέρα

camarera

hotellin kerroshoitaja

femme de chambre

sobarica

szobalány

òjónustustúlka

camerieracameriera d’albergocameriera d'albergo

客室係のメイド

객실 담당 여직원

kamermeisje

stuepike

pokojówka

arrumadeira empregada de quartos

горничная

chyžná

städerska

สาวใช้ทำความสะอาดห้องนอน

oda görevlisioda hizmetçisi

nữ phục vụ phòng

女服务员

chambermaid

[ˈtʃeɪmbəmeɪd] N (in hotel) → camarera f

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

chambermaid

[ˈtʃeɪmbə^rmeɪd] n → femme f de chambrechamber music n → musique f de chambreChamber of Commerce n → Chambre f de commerceChamber of Horrors n → cabinet m des horreurschamber orchestra n → orchestre m (de musique) de chambrechamber pot n → pot m de chambre

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

chambermaid

[ˈtʃeɪmbəˌmeɪd] n → cameriera al piano

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

chamber

(ˈtʃeimbə) noun

1. a room.

2. the place where an assembly (eg Parliament) meets. There were few members left in the chamber.

3. such an assembly. the Upper and Lower Chambers.

4. an enclosed space or cavity eg the part of a gun which holds the bullets. Many pistols have chambers for six bullets.

ˈchambermaid noun

a female servant or hotel worker in charge of bedrooms.

chamber music

music for a small group of players, suitable for a room rather than a large hall.

chambermaid

→ خَادِمَةٌ في فُنْدُق pokojská stuepige Zimmermädchen καμαριέρα camarera hotellin kerroshoitaja femme de chambre sobarica cameriera d’albergo 客室係のメイド 객실 담당 여직원 kamermeisje stuepike pokojówka arrumadeira, empregada de quartos горничная städerska สาวใช้ทำความสะอาดห้องนอน oda görevlisi nữ phục vụ phòng 女服务员

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what should be leaving my room, as I advanced to enter it, but--well, it's no use, resolutions are all very well, but facts are facts, especially when they're natural, and here was I face to face with the most natural little natural fact, and withal the most charming and merry-eyed, that-- well, in short, as I came to enter my room I was confronted by the roundest, ruddiest little chambermaid ever created for the trial of mortal frailty.

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The head waiter's fee is a shade less than the portier's; the Boots, who not only blacks your boots and brushes your clothes, but is usually the porter and handles your baggage, gets a somewhat smaller fee than the head waiter; the chambermaid's fee ranks below that of the Boots.

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The chambermaid rearranged it with a ready hand which showed that she was no beginner in the art of dressing hair.

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On her way back to the drawing-room she was addressed by a chambermaid in the corridor who asked for her key.

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Your toilet must be provided for, and you shall have everything that an unlimited head chambermaid--by which expression I mean a head chambermaid not limited as to outlay--can procure.

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She got a berth as second chambermaid on a Cincinnati boat in the New Orleans trade, the Grand Mogul.

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I was a sort of chambermaid, you must understand, when the evening came.

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Accordingly, when she retired at night, she asked the chambermaid whether Pemberley were not a very fine place?

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The chambermaid was Irish, and all the waiters were German, so that I never heard a word of French spoken.

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Miss Crow, the daughter of a farmer; John Giddish, himself a farmer; Nan Slouch, Esther Codling, Will Spray, Tom Bennet; the three Misses Potter, whose father keeps the sign of the Red Lion; Betty Chambermaid, Jack Ostler, and many others of inferior note, lay rolling among the graves.

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The first morning of her regency, Miss Ophelia was up at four o'clock; and having attended to all the adjustments of her own chamber, as she had done ever since she came there, to the great amazement of the chambermaid, she prepared for a vigorous onslaught on the cupboards and closets of the establishment of which she had the keys.

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And for whom-for some GRISETTE, some chambermaid with whom I have trifled in some garrison?

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