handmaiden
noun/ˈhændmeɪdn/
/ˈhændmeɪdn/
(also handmaid
/ˈhændmeɪd/
/ˈhændmeɪd/
)- (old-fashioned) a female servant
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- (formal) something that supports and helps something else
- Mathematics was once dubbed the handmaiden of the sciences.
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