servant
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English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle English servaunt, from Old French servant, from the present participle of the verb servir. Doublet of sergeant and servient. Morphologically serve + -ant. Displaced native Old English þeġn.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈsɜːvənt/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈsɝvənt/,
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)vənt
Noun
servant (plural servants)
- One who is hired to perform regular household or other duties, and receives compensation. As opposed to a slave.
- There are three servants in the household, the butler and two maids.
- 1915, G[eorge] A. Birmingham [pseudonym; James Owen Hannay], chapter I, in Gossamer, New York, N.Y.: George H. Doran Company, →OCLC:
- As a political system democracy seems to me extraordinarily foolish, but I would not go out of my way to protest against it. My servant is, so far as I am concerned, welcome to as many votes as he can get. I would very gladly make mine over to him if I could.
- One who serves another, providing help in some manner.
- She is quite the humble servant, the poor in this city owe much to her but she expects nothing.
- (religion) A person who dedicates themselves to God.
- (obsolete) A professed lover.
- A person of low condition or spirit.
Derived terms
Translations
one who is hired to perform regular household or other duties, and receives compensation
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one who serves another, providing help in some manner
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Verb
servant (third-person singular simple present servants, present participle servanting, simple past and past participle servanted)
- (obsolete, transitive) To subject.
- c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :
- Wife, Mother, Child, I know not. My affaires
Are Seruanted to others […]
References
- “servant”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Anagrams
French
Etymology
From Middle French, from Old French servant, a substantivized present participle of servir. Cf. also Latin serviens, and French sergent.
Pronunciation
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Participle
servant
Noun
servant m (plural servants, feminine servante)
Derived terms
Related terms
Further reading
- “servant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.
Anagrams
Latin
Verb
servant
Middle English
Noun
servant
- Alternative form of servaunt
Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
servant m (definite singular servanten, indefinite plural servanter, definite plural servantene)
Synonyms
Norwegian Nynorsk
Noun
servant m (definite singular servanten, indefinite plural servantar, definite plural servantane)
Synonyms
Old French
Verb
servant
Adjective
servant m (oblique and nominative feminine singular servant or servante)
- that serves; that fulfils a role
Noun
servant oblique singular, m (oblique plural servanz or servantz, nominative singular servanz or servantz, nominative plural servant)
- servant (one who serves)