servant

noun ser·vant \ ˈsər-vənt \

|Updated on: 8 Jul 2018

Examples: servant in a Sentence

Definition of servant

: one that serves others

a public servant

; especially : one that performs duties about the person or home of a master or personal employer

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servanthood

play \ˈsər-vənt-ˌhu̇d\ noun

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servantless

adjective

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Examples of servant in a Sentence

the wealthy family had servants to clean and cook for them

Recent Examples of servant from the Web

One of the best and funniest exchanges in this play involves the King and Sarah Day’s Juliette, the grumpy, long-ignored and decidedly underappreciated servant.

— mike fischer, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, "Love and death in Spring Green: 'The Recruiting Officer,' 'Exit the King'," 3 July 2018
Later Tocqueville visited Andrew Jackson in the White House, where the president himself, with no servant in sight, served glasses of Madeira.

— joseph tartakovsky, WSJ, "The Culture That Sustains America’s Constitution," 2 July 2018
Police are supposed to be the protectors and servants of the public.

— michael harriot, The Root, "All Black People Are Victims of Police Brutality," 26 June 2018
The victims were the former Tsar, Nicholas II, his wife, Tsarina Alexandra, their five children and four loyal servants.

— anna diamond, Smithsonian, "A Century Ago, the Romanovs Met a Gruesome End," 26 June 2018
Mark Wilson/Newsmakers Former Sens. Trent Lott of Mississippi and John Breaux of Louisiana, longtime lobbyists and two of big oil’s most devoted servants, have formed a new political action committee.

— david roberts, Vox, "Big oil and Bush-era lobbyists are teaming up to support a carbon tax," 22 June 2018
Near the beginning of this remarkable novel, two West Indian domestic servants contemplate one of the daughters of the house — a young girl called Gwen — who is hiding from her family in a mango tree in the garden.

— New York Times, "Two Writers Haunted by Their Caribbean Past," 22 June 2018
The roles most often involved being maids or servants.

— tre'vell anderson, latimes.com, "A look back at the blaxploitation era through 2018 eyes," 8 June 2018
Originally, the monarch would bestow titles on servants who pledged loyalty in exchange for protection or land, making them a peer of the realm.

— angela dewan, CNN, "Duke and Duchess of Sussex: Harry and Meghan's new titles," 19 May 2018

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