Servant
['sɜːv(ə)nt] or ['sɝvənt]
Definition
(noun.) a person working in the service of another (especially in the household).
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Definition
(n.) One who serves, or does services, voluntarily or on compulsion; a person who is employed by another for menial offices, or for other labor, and is subject to his command; a person who labors or exerts himself for the benefit of another, his master or employer; a subordinate helper.
(n.) One in a state of subjection or bondage.
(n.) A professed lover or suitor; a gallant.
(v. t.) To subject.
Checker: Willa
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Servitor, subaltern, dependant, subordinate helper.[2]. Menial, domestic, drudge, slave, HELP.
Checker: Nathan
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Retainer, domestic, attendant, minister, maid, abigail, handmaid
ANT:Lord, master, mistress, employer
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Definition
n. one who is in the service of another: a labourer: a domestic: one dedicated to God: (B.) a slave: one of low condition or spirit: a professed lover: a word of mere civility as in 'your humble' or 'obedient servant' in letters petitions &c.—v.t. to subject.—ns. Ser′vant-girl Ser′vant-maid a female domestic servant; Ser′vant-man a male servant; Ser′vantry servants collectively; Ser′vantship position or relation of a servant.—Servant out of livery a servant of a higher grade as a major-domo or butler; Servants' call a whistle to call attendants; Servants' hall the room in a house where the servants eat together.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of a servant, is a sign that you will be fortunate, despite gloomy appearances. Anger is likely to precipitate you into useless worries and quarrels. To discharge one, foretells regrets and losses. To quarrel with one in your dream, indicates that you will, upon waking, have real cause for censuring some one who is derelict in duty. To be robbed by one, shows that you have some one near you, who does not respect the laws of ownership.
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Examples
- Tell my servant to bring me up some hot water at half-past eight in the morning, and that I shall not want him any more to-night. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Hadn't you better say she's mad enough to be an ugly girl and only a servant? Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- The horses were post; and neither the carriage, nor the livery of the servant who preceded it, were familiar to them. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- I despatched the first woman-servant I could find to Rosanna's room; and I sent the boy back to say that I myself would follow him with the boot. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- The servant who stood holding the door, asked no question of John, neither did he go before them or follow them as they went straight up-stairs. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- You are not a servant at the hall, of course. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Is there no old banker, no old business, no old servant, no old time, rising in your mind, Monsieur Manette? Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- I am the servant of an infallible Master. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- The honest Irish maid-servant, delighted with the change, asked leave to kiss the face that had grown all of a sudden so rosy. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- He dismounted, and giving his horse to his servant, walked back with them to Barton, whither he was purposely coming to visit them. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- On the third day, the prince's servant was again despatched on the same errand, and he was at last successful. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- And she produced from her pocket a most housewifely bunch of keys, and delivered them to the servant. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Before I could leave the room in my turn, Miss Rachel, always considerate to the old servant who had been in the house when she was born, stopped me. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- The servant who had followed me staggered back shuddering, and dropped to his knees. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- No servant would stay with us, and for a long time we did all the work of the house. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- As he was returning the box to his waistcoat pocket, a loud bell rang for the servants' dinner; he knew what it was. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- I suppose the servants are careless, and we have had a great many people coming. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The servants could not describe the man, as he did not enter the house, but remained in the carriage. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- This Mr. Will was commander-in-chief of Worcester's servants. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Servants, labourers, and workmen of different kinds, make up the far greater part of every great political society. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- A man of plain habits, he had sent his servants to bed and must needs go down to open the door. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Do you mean, Sir Percival, that I am to dismiss the indoor servants under my charge without the usual month's warning? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- A picture of our family life would be incomplete without the household servants. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I went back at once to the question of the servants wanted for the furnished house. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- They are the work of servants and labourers who derive the principal part of their subsistence from some other employment. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- What the servants chiefly resented, I think, was her silent tongue and her solitary ways. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- His own good sense taught him that such a training of his servants was unjust and dangerous. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- If we add hired servants the State will be complete. Plato. The Republic.
- I only said I wouldn't go without one of the servants came up to Sir Leicester Dedlock, returns Mr. Smallweed. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Why,' replied Mr. Trotter, 'my master and I, being in the confidence of the two servants, will be secreted in the kitchen at ten o'clock. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
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