Associations to the word «Handmaid»

Wiktionary

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

Dictionary definition

HANDMAID, noun. In a subordinate position; "theology should be the handmaiden of ethics"; "the state cannot be a servant of the church".
HANDMAID, noun. A personal maid or female attendant.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne