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a man employed in in the home of a wealthy person to perform various personal services and to be in charge of other household employees
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Recent Examples of butlers
Its overwater villas, cerulean lagoons, and barefoot butlers have become synonymous with the tropical island fantasy, and last year, an all-time high of 2 million visitors touched down on its sugar-white sands.
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Chris Schalkx, Robb Report, 28 Aug. 2025
Suites have special extras like saunas, home theaters, personal butlers, and steam rooms.
—Taylor McIntyre, Travel + Leisure, 24 Aug. 2025
Luxury safaris These lodges usually start around $600 per person per day and provide luxurious accommodations, private game safaris, gourmet meals and personalized services like private guides and butlers.
—Harriet Akinyi, CNBC, 19 Dec. 2024
Luxurious amenities like a dedicated cinema room, wine cellar and infinity pool overlooking the plains are all in place for visitors to enjoy, while on-staff butlers, chefs and wildlife guides are all at-the-ready to ensure that no need goes unmet.
—Jared Ranahan, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
The installation has now reopened, with champagne served by male butlers available to its female viewers.
—Francesca Aton, ARTnews.com, 12 Dec. 2024
Dress in shades of soft sand and palm green for the scene at the Harborside Pool Club, where butlers deliver pitchers of rum punch to private cabanas; come sundown, glam things up with a flash of gold or pearls.
—Charlotte Davey, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 Nov. 2024
Chris Schalkx, Robb Report, 28 Aug. 2025
Suites have special extras like saunas, home theaters, personal butlers, and steam rooms.
—Taylor McIntyre, Travel + Leisure, 24 Aug. 2025
Luxury safaris These lodges usually start around $600 per person per day and provide luxurious accommodations, private game safaris, gourmet meals and personalized services like private guides and butlers.
—Harriet Akinyi, CNBC, 19 Dec. 2024
Luxurious amenities like a dedicated cinema room, wine cellar and infinity pool overlooking the plains are all in place for visitors to enjoy, while on-staff butlers, chefs and wildlife guides are all at-the-ready to ensure that no need goes unmet.
—Jared Ranahan, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
The installation has now reopened, with champagne served by male butlers available to its female viewers.
—Francesca Aton, ARTnews.com, 12 Dec. 2024
Dress in shades of soft sand and palm green for the scene at the Harborside Pool Club, where butlers deliver pitchers of rum punch to private cabanas; come sundown, glam things up with a flash of gold or pearls.
—Charlotte Davey, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 Nov. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for butlers
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News of Coward’s impending attendance, spread by the area’s servants, results in a triumphant event in which Coward not only sings a song but also, upon hearing of Mary’s divorce, hatches the plot for Private Lives.—
Frank Scheck,
HollywoodReporter,
3 Sep. 2025
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The first such center was established in Taylor, Michigan, with others eventually popping up in Florida, Texas and Missouri — all of them making money off the backs of servants who allegedly were forced to work for free.—
Tresa Baldas,
Freep.com,
27 Aug. 2025
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The 1990s Father Ted comedy for the BBC centered on three misfit priests and their housekeepers on a remote Irish island.—
Etan Vlessing,
HollywoodReporter,
2 Sep. 2025
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The children's longtime nanny, Maria Turrion Borrallo, and housekeepers will likely stay in smaller properties nearby.—
Stephanie Petit,
People.com,
25 Aug. 2025
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Chastain portrayed Celia Foote in the drama based on Kathryn Stockett's novel of the same name about a white journalist chronicling the lives of Black maids working for white households in 1960s Mississippi.—
Raechal Shewfelt,
Entertainment Weekly,
5 Sep. 2025
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Her mother was a nurse, her aunts and distant cousins all nurses and maids and cleaners scattered everywhere from Jeddah to Singapore to Rome.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
6 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Leaders who grasp this framework will see themselves not just as managers of tasks but as architects of signals, stewards of patterns, cultivators of pathways, and guardians of heuristics.—
Scott Hutcheson,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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Then on Sunday, stewards suspended Lopez for three days for the Reef Runner-Motorious incident.—
Bill Center,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
1 Sep. 2025
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Its purpose is to maximize the president’s control over our lives, enrich his family, reward his lackeys and punish his critics.—
Steve Chapman,
Chicago Tribune,
3 Sep. 2025
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Matthew quickly schemes his way into Oliver’s orbit after that first performance, impressing and rankling the group of lackeys in his entourage at the same time.—
Eric Torres,
Pitchfork,
27 Aug. 2025
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“Butlers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/butlers. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.
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