Abigail Definition
ăbĭ-gāl
noun
A feminine name: dim. Abby, Gail.
Webster's New World
[Archaic] a lady's maid.
Webster's New World
1847, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre.
In the servants’ hall two coachmen and three gentlemen’s gentlemen stood or sat round the fire; the abigails, I suppose, were upstairs with their mistresses; the new servants, that had been hired from Millcote, were bustling about everywhere.
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pronoun
A female given name, used since the 16th century, and currently quite popular.
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Other Word Forms of Abigail
Noun
Singular:
Abigail
Plural:
abigailsOrigin of Abigail
From the name Abigail, as given to a waiting-maid in Beaumont and Fletcher's play The Scornful Lady.
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Hebrew אֲבִיגַיִל (avigáyil, “Abigail”, literally “her Father's joy” or “fountain of joy”).
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