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noun
- 1. a person who performs duties for others, especially a person employed in a house on domestic duties or as a personal attendant. Similar Opposite
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: one that serves others. a public servant. especially : one that performs duties about the person or home of a master or personal employer. servanthood. ˈsər-vənt-ˌhu̇d. noun. servantless adjective. Synonyms. daily [ British] domestic. flunky. flunkey. flunkie. lackey. menial. retainer. steward. See all Synonyms & Antonyms in Thesaurus.
SERVANT definition: 1. a person who is employed in another person's house, doing jobs such as cooking and cleaning…. Learn more.
a person who is employed to do work for another person, esp. to work in another person’s home doing jobs such as cooking and cleaning. Servant is also used in combination to mean someone working for the public: a civil / public servant. (Definition of servant from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
Servant definition: a person employed by another, especially to perform domestic duties.. See examples of SERVANT used in a sentence.
A servant works at someone’s home, often doing lowly tasks. You might feel like a servant when your mom insists that you do the dishes before you can do anything fun, but think how she feels cooking dinner every day! If you’re a servant, you serve someone else.
A servant is someone who is employed to work in another person's house, for example to cook or clean. The family employed several servants. American English : servant / ˈsɜrvənt /
noun. /ˈsɜːvənt/ /ˈsɜːrvənt/ Idioms. a person who works in another person’s house, and cooks, cleans, etc. for them. a domestic servant. a faithful/devoted/trusted servant. They treat their mother like a servant. servant to somebody She was working as a servant to the Smith family. servant of somebody one of the servants of the king of Persia.
SERVANT definition: someone who works and lives in someone else's house doing their cooking and cleaning, especially in…. Learn more.
1. One who is privately employed to perform domestic services. 2. One who is publicly employed to perform services, as for a government. 3. One who expresses submission, recognizance, or debt to another: your obedient servant. [Middle English, from Old French, from present participle of servir, to serve; see serve .]
a person employed by another, esp. to perform domestic duties. a person in the service of another. a person employed by the government: a public servant. Old French, noun, nominal use of present participle of servir to serve; see - ant. Middle English 1175–1225. serv′ant•less, adj. serv′ant•like′, adj.
