miss vs maid

miss and maid both are nouns.

miss is a verb but maid is not a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
miss	Yes	No	Yes	No
maid	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, maid is a hyponym of miss; that is, maid is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than miss:

miss: a young female
maid: an unmarried girl (especially a virgin)

Other hyponyms of miss include belle, bimbo, chachka, tchotchke, tchotchkeleh, tsatske, tshatshke, chit, colleen, bird, chick, dame, doll, skirt, wench, flapper, gal, gamine, Gibson girl, jeune fille, lass, lassie, young girl, maiden, May queen, queen of the May, mill-girl, party girl, peri, ring girl, rosebud, sex bomb, sex kitten, sexpot, shop girl, soubrette, sweater girl, hoyden, romp, tomboy, valley girl, working girl.

miss (noun)	maid (noun)
a failure to hit (or meet or find etc)	an unmarried girl (especially a virgin)
a young female	a female domestic

miss (verb)	maid (verb)
leave undone or leave out
fail to experience
fail to reach
feel or suffer from the lack of
fail to reach or get to
fail to perceive or to catch with the senses or the mind
be without
fail to attend an event or activity
be absent

Difference between miss and maid

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