Servant

  • 21SERVANT — adj. m. Qui sert. On ne l’emploie guère que dans certaines locutions particulières : Gentilhomme servant se disait des Officiers qui servaient par quartier à la table royale. Cavalier servant se dit d’un Homme qui rend des soins assidus à une… …

    Dictionnaire de l'Academie Francaise, 8eme edition (1935)

  • 22servant — [[t]sɜ͟ː(r)v(ə)nt[/t]] ♦♦♦ servants 1) N COUNT A servant is someone who is employed to work at another person s home, for example as a cleaner or a gardener. Syn: domestic 2) N COUNT You can use servant to refer to someone or something that… …

    English dictionary

  • 23servant —   Kanaka hana (male); wahine hana (female); kanaka lawelawe, kanaka, ōhua. See outcast, retainer.    ♦ Anciently, attendants to a chief were privileged blood relatives who might not be dismissed; kauā (Biblical, servant) were despised outcasts… …

    English-Hawaiian dictionary

  • 24SERVANT — adj. m. Qui sert. On ne l emploie que dans certaines dénominations particulières.  Chez le Roi, Gentilshommes servants, Officiers qui servaient à table par quartier. Les gentilshommes servants portaient les plats sur la table du roi.   Dans l… …

    Dictionnaire de l'Academie Francaise, 7eme edition (1835)

  • 25servant — Synonyms and related words: 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,… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 26servant */*/*/ — UK [ˈsɜː(r)v(ə)nt] / US [ˈsɜrvənt] noun [countable] Word forms servant : singular servant plural servants someone whose job is to cook, clean, or do other work in someone else s home • the servant of …

    English dictionary

  • 27servant — An employee. One employed to perform service in master s affairs, whose physical conduct in performance of the service is controlled or is subject to right to control by the master. Reiling v. Missouri Ins. Co., 236 Mo.App. 164, 153 S.W.2d 79;… …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 28servant — n. 1 a person who has undertaken (usu. in return for stipulated pay) to carry out the orders of an individual or corporate employer, esp. a person employed in a house on domestic duties or as a personal attendant. 2 a devoted follower, a person… …

    Useful english dictionary

  • 29Servant — The Servant  британская музыкальная группа The Servant  альбом этой группы …

    Википедия

  • 30Servant — This interesting name is a dialectual variant of the name Sergeant an occupational name of Anglo French orign. The derivation is from the Olde French or Medieval word Sergent , itself from the Latin Serviens, to serve. The surname probably… …

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