footmen

Definition of footmennext
plural of footman
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Noun
  • As previously noted, one of the gifts of Russian greats that Saunders most celebrates is their way of locating complex truths in the stuff of ordinary lives—their towns and farms, and their families, their servants; their animals.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 20 May 2026
  • In 2011, the teenage prince, Sheikh Khalifa bin Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, arrived at USC with a small army of servants for an undergrad filled with luxury Lakers suites, exotic cars and a full-time residence at the Beverly Wilshire hotel.
    Jack Flemming, Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2026
Noun
  • Membership to Club Myttas includes an on-call assistant for booking private chauffeurs, butlers, and chefs.
    Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 5 May 2026
  • At the same time, people are creating faceless digital butlers known as agents, which are already starting to populate digital spaces and can often pass for humans.
    Will Gottsegen, The Atlantic, 24 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • The young women and their cavaliers headed to L’Arc, a nightclub in Paris situated near the Shangri-La; there, the group continued their celebrations some hours later.
    Zoey Lyttle, PEOPLE, 1 Dec. 2025
Noun
  • Traffickers recruit young people, including minors, to serve as foot soldiers in their bloody quest to control drug-trafficking routes across Mexico.
    Steve Fisher, Los Angeles Times, 17 May 2026
  • But, as academic mastery has become secondary to political consciousness, students are no longer being molded into informed citizens so much as into ideological foot soldiers.
    Courtney Corbello, Oc Register, 4 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • That lack of sentimentality persists throughout — through the war wherein the architect gets shipped to the Eastern Front and his wife must find a way to survive an occupation in her house of Soviet soldiers, and right up to the final section.
    Leslie Felperin, HollywoodReporter, 16 May 2026
  • Cabrera carefully handed bags of belongings to soldiers escorting a small group of families returning home to gather their things.
    ABC News, ABC News, 16 May 2026
Noun
  • Pumpkin’s lonely holiday ritual is interrupted by the arrival of a savage gang of raiders at her doorstep led by Thalia (Sossamon).
    Brent Lang, Variety, 29 Apr. 2026
  • Out of all 32 teams in the League, the Las Vegas raiders get the first pick of the draft, with the New York Jets to follow.
    Katie Decker-Jacoby, StyleCaster, 23 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Women worked as domestics; men served as unskilled laborers, canal diggers and later as mill workers across the river.
    Paula Kane, The Conversation, 13 Mar. 2026
  • Along with its extensive food menu, Hamlin Pub bar program will have more than two dozen beers on tap, from ales to IPAs to domestics and imports, along with craft cocktails.
    Susan Selasky, Freep.com, 7 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • At the end of the day, these are just salty fans and keyboard warriors, so their opinions probably mean next to nothing in the eyes of Edwards.
    Austin Perry OutKick, FOXNews.com, 16 May 2026
  • The two men came into the fight after tons of trash talk and seemingly bad blood, but that was buried mid-fight as the two warriors repeatedly showed each other respect.
    Brian Mazique, Forbes.com, 10 May 2026
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“Footmen.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/footmen. Accessed 23 May. 2026.

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