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handmaiden

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Noun handmaiden has 2 senses
  1. handmaid, handmaiden, servant - in a subordinate position; "theology should be the handmaiden of ethics"; "the state cannot be a servant of the church"
    --1 is a kind of subordinateness, subsidiarity
  2. handmaid, handmaiden - a personal maid or female attendant
    --2 is a kind of maid, maidservant, housemaid, amah
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