The meaning of Servant

noun

A person employed to provide a service to the public in a particular place.

Usage examples:

A cloakroom attendant

adjective

Occurring with or as a result of.

Usage examples:

The sea and its attendant attractions

noun

Someone whose job is to help others in a particular place or situation

Usage examples:

A gas station/parking lot attendant

noun

A person employed to clean the interior of a building.

Usage examples:

She's one of the office cleaners

adjective

Free from dirt, marks, or stains.

Usage examples:

The room was spotlessly clean

noun

A business that cleans clothes by using chemicals

Usage examples:

A window cleaner, a household cleaner

adjective

Relating to the running of a home or to family relations.

Usage examples:

Domestic chores

noun

A person who is paid to help with cleaning and other menial tasks in a person's home.

Usage examples:

Nor were we happy with how some of the churches educated, when they seemed to train the young prima…

noun

A stout seed- or fruit-eating bird with a small head, short legs, and a cooing voice, typically having grey and white plumage.

noun

A liveried manservant or footman.

Usage examples:

Liveried flunkies rushed forward to open the doors, tv lights flared, cameras flashed and the crowd…

noun

A person who does unimportant work or who has few or no important responsibilities and shows too much respect toward his or her employer

Usage examples:

He could snap his fingers and get his flunky to do it.

noun

A female servant.

Usage examples:

And also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will i pour out my spirit.

verb

Make it easier or possible for (someone) to do something by offering one's services or resources.

Usage examples:

They helped her with domestic chores

noun

The action of helping someone to do something.

Usage examples:

I asked for help from my neighbours

exclamation

Used as an appeal for urgent assistance.

Usage examples:

Help! i'm drowning!

noun

A person who helps someone else.

Usage examples:

There was no shortage of willing helpers

noun

A person who helps with an activity

Usage examples:

The driver or a helper picks up the trash.

noun

Someone who helps another person to do their job

Usage examples:

Classroom/domestic helpers, voluntary/volunteer helpers

noun

A female domestic employee, especially one who cleans reception rooms and bedrooms.

Usage examples:

As our family grew we'd hired more servants so that now we had a parlourmaid, two housemaids, two k…

noun

A woman servant whose job is to clean a large house, and who often lives there

noun

A servant, especially a liveried footman or manservant.

Usage examples:

Lackeys were waiting to help them from the carriage

verb

Behave in a servile way towards (someone).

Usage examples:

He had lacqueyed and flattered walpole

noun

A servant or someone who behaves like one by obeying someone else's orders or by doing unpleasant work for them

Usage examples:

He treats us all like his lackeys.

noun

A female domestic servant.

Usage examples:

Mary eventually managed to find a job as a maid

noun

A woman who is employed to clean hotel rooms and make them neat, or a woman who is a servant in a person’s home

Usage examples:

We left a note in our room for the maid to give us extra towels.

noun

A woman who works as a servant in a hotel or in someone's home

Usage examples:

In the beach resort, the apartments and villas have daily maid service., in california many illegal…

noun

A female domestic servant.

Usage examples:

She promptly placed one thousand man-servants opposite one thousand maidservants and declared, ‘he …

noun

A follower or underling of a powerful person, especially a servile or unimportant one.

Usage examples:

He gets oppressed minions like me to fob them off

noun

A person who is not important and who has to do what another person of higher rank orders them to do

Usage examples:

He sent one of his minions to do something about it.

noun

A thing that holds something in place.

Usage examples:

A guitar string retainer

noun

An amount of money that you pay to someone in advance so that the person will work for you when needed

Usage examples:

He was on a $150,000 retainer from lloyd's of london.

noun

An amount of money that you pay to a lawyer, consultant (= someone paid to give expert advice or training), etc. in order to be sure that they can work for you when you need them to

Usage examples:

The firm retained white as a consultant, paying him a $5,000 retainer., get/be on/receive a retaine…