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

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
Stephen King