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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Examples of servant in a Sentence
the wealthy family had servants to clean and cook for them
Recent Examples of servant from the Web
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Last month, Oliver was indicted on two counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon by a public servant in an unrelated incident, where he is accused of displaying a gun during a traffic accident.
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Oliver was indicted last month on two counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon by a public servant in an unrelated incident, where he is accused of displaying a gun during a traffic accident.
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Last month, Oliver was indicted on two counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon by a public servant in an unrelated incident, where he is accused of displaying a gun during a traffic accident.
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The bride’s father is a civil servant in Innsbruck, Austria, for the customs administration of the Austrian Federal Ministry of Finance.
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The civil servant continued reporting to work each day as the militants asserted their control over Mosul’s nearly 2 million inhabitants, one institution at a time.
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Ponder has not spoken out publicly on a reading list that includes a swath of conservative media personalities and former public servants such as Michael Savage, Ann Coulter, Mark Levin, Charles Colson, Ron Paul and President Ronald Reagan.
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But in this instance, the president conveyed his threat through government officials, using the power of his office — and public servants — to extort a display of sycophancy from two cable news hosts.
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But as someone who's found success in the private sector and leveraged her family name to build a retail brand, the life of a civil servant—one that includes going head-to-head with people who disagree with her—seems to pose too much of a challenge.
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Origin and Etymology of servant
Middle English, from Anglo-French, from present participle of servir
SERVANT Defined for English Language Learners
servant
playDefinition of servant for English Language Learners
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: a person who is hired to do household or personal duties such as cleaning and cooking
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: a person who is devoted to or guided by something
SERVANT Defined for Kids
servant
playDefinition of servant for Students
: a person hired to perform household or personal services
Law Dictionary
servant
Legal Definition of servant
: a person who serves others: as a : an individual who performs duties about the person or home of a master or personal employer b : a person in the employ and subject to the direction or control of an individual or company — see also respondeat superior — compare agent, master
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