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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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especially : a person hired to perform household or personal services. Etymology. Middle English servant "servant," from early French servant (same meaning), from a form of servir "to serve," from Latin servire "to be a slave, serve," from servus "slave, servant" — related to serf.
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)
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.
1. countable noun B2. A servant is someone who is employed to work at another person's home, for example as a cleaner or a gardener. 2. countable noun. You can use servant to refer to someone or something that provides a service for people or can be used by them.
noun. a person employed by another, especially to perform domestic duties. a person in the service of another. a person employed by the government: a public servant. servant. / ˈsɜːvənt / noun. a person employed to work for another, esp one who performs household duties. See public servant.
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.]
servant. 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 definition: someone who works and lives in someone else's house doing their cooking and cleaning, especially in…. Learn more.
A servant is someone who is employed to work at another person's home, for example, as a cleaner or a gardener. 2. You can use servant to refer to someone or something that provides a service for people or can be used by them.
