Servant

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Servant \Serv"ant\, v. t.
     To subject. [Obs.] --Shak.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  Servant \Serv"ant\, n. [OE. servant, servaunt, F. servant, a &
     p. pr. of servir to serve, L. servire. See {Serve}, and cf.
     {Sergeant}.]
     1. 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. "A yearly hired servant." --Lev. xxv. 53.
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              Men in office have begun to think themselves mere
              agents and servants of the appointing power, and not
              agents of the government or the country. --D.
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     Note: In a legal sense, stewards, factors, bailiffs, and
           other agents, are servants for the time they are
           employed in such character, as they act in
           subordination to others. So any person may be legally
           the servant of another, in whose business, and under
           whose order, direction, and control, he is acting for
           the time being. --Chitty.
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     2. One in a state of subjection or bondage.
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              Thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt. --Deut. v.
                                                    15.
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     3. A professed lover or suitor; a gallant. [Obs.]
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              In my time a servant was I one.       --Chaucer.
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     {Servant of servants}, one debased to the lowest condition of
        servitude.
  
     {Your humble servant}, or {Your obedient servant}, phrases of
        civility formerly often used in closing a letter, now
        archaic; -- at one time such phrases were exaggerated to
        include {Your most humble, most obedient servant}.
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              Our betters tell us they are our humble servants,
              but understand us to be their slaves. --Swift.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  servant
       n 1: a person working in the service of another (especially in
            the household) [syn: {retainer}]
       2: in a subordinate position; "theology should be the
          handmaiden of ethics"; "the state cannot be a servant of
          the church" [syn: {handmaid}, {handmaiden}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  194 Moby Thesaurus words for "servant":
     Charlie McCarthy, Ganymede, acolyte, adherent, adjutant, agent,
     aid, aide, aide-de-camp, aider, amah, ancilla, appendage,
     appliance, assistant, attendant, au pair girl, auxiliary, ayah,
     best man, blue-collar worker, bondmaid, bondman, bondslave,
     bondsman, bondswoman, boots, boy, breadwinner, butler, captive,
     casual, casual laborer, charwoman, chatelaine, chattel,
     chattel slave, chauffeur, chef, churl, civil servant, cleaner,
     cleaning man, cleaning woman, coachman, coadjutant, coadjutor,
     coadjutress, coadjutrix, common laborer, concubine, contrivance,
     cook, creature, daily, dangler, day laborer, debt slave, dependent,
     deputy, device, domestic servant, driver, dummy, dupe, employee,
     executive officer, factory worker, factotum, flunky, follower,
     footman, free lance, free-lancer, full-time worker, galley slave,
     go-between, governess, groom, hand, handmaid, handmaiden,
     hanger-on, heeler, helot, help, helper, helpmate, helpmeet,
     henchman, homager, houseboy, housekeeper, houseman, implement,
     industrial worker, inferior, instrument, interagent, intermediary,
     intermediate, intermedium, jobber, jobholder, junior, laborer,
     laboring man, lackey, lever, liege, liege man, liege subject,
     lieutenant, maid, maidservant, man, manservant, mechanism,
     mediator, medium, menial, midwife, migrant, minion, moiler, nanny,
     navvy, nurse, nursemaid, odalisque, office temporary, organ, page,
     paranymph, paraprofessional, pawn, peon, plaything, postilion,
     proletarian, public servant, puppet, retainer, right-hand man,
     roustabout, salaried worker, satellite, scullion, second,
     secondary, self-employed person, seneschal, serf, servitor, shadow,
     sideman, slave, steward, stewardess, stiff, stooge, subject,
     subordinate, supporting actor, supporting instrumentalist, tagtail,
     temporary, theow, thrall, toiler, tool, toy, tweeny, underling,
     understrapper, upstairs maid, valet, vassal, vehicle, villein,
     wage earner, wage slave, wageworker, waiter, waitress, ward heeler,
     wine steward, worker, workgirl, workhand, working girl, workingman,
     workingwoman, workman