footmen

Definition of footmennext
plural of footman

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for footmen
Noun
  • The servants worked on Christmas Day and would have the next day off to go visit their own families.
    Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA Today, 24 Dec. 2025
  • But, tensions and class struggles keep everyone, including the servants, on edge, all leading up to a mysterious murder.
    Keith Langston, PEOPLE, 15 Dec. 2025
Noun
  • All suites have outdoor balconies and come with butlers, included drinks, laundry, tips, and Wi-Fi.
    Jane Archer, Travel + Leisure, 28 Dec. 2025
  • Suites come with butlers who are happy to unpack for you, press your trousers, and bring snacks.
    Amy Tara Koch, Robb Report, 11 Dec. 2025
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
  • Congress has become the president’s foot soldiers.
    Carlo Versano, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Nov. 2025
  • Just as MBAs worldwide have spawned a managerial caste — the foot soldiers of the corporate world — the reckoning schools produced their own commercial caste.
    Big Think, Big Think, 5 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Among the deceased were colonels, lieutenants, majors and captains and some reserve soldiers, ranging in age from 26 to 60, The Associated Press reported.
    Louis Casiano, FOXNews.com, 7 Jan. 2026
  • And those soldiers will come from Connecticut and the other 49 states and the territories and the district.
    Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 7 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • The Tofinu took refuge in the lagoons along the Bight of Benin, a core area of the slave trade, venturing forth in canoes with harpoons, javelins, and swords to fight off raiders from powerful nearby kingdoms.
    Laurent Dubois, The Atlantic, 6 Jan. 2026
  • Set two-hundred years after atomic armageddon, residents of Vault-Tec’s network of luxury fallout habitats begin to explore the radioactive territory outside their shelters and discover a nightmarish world of militant factions, irradiated creatures, vicious raiders, and feral monsters.
    Jeff Spry, Space.com, 16 Dec. 2025
Noun
  • The fact that this extremely complex and grueling mission was successfully executed with so few injuries is a testament to the expertise of our joint warriors.
    January 8, CBS News, 8 Jan. 2026
  • Loyalty, even in the face of death Two thousand years later, and half a world away, the samurai warriors of Japan also famously focused on honor.
    Kenneth Andrew Andres Leonardo, The Conversation, 8 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Tony & Ziva wrapped its rollercoaster of an espionage tale Thursday with an intense finale, which picked up with the titular pair once again going in search of their daughter Tali after she’s kidnapped by Jonah Markham’s (Julian Ovendon) lackeys.
    Katie Campione, Deadline, 23 Oct. 2025
  • At the slightest provocation, Ye bullies, hectors, and screams at everyone from Paris fashion-show lackeys to the mother of his child.
    Derek Robertson, The Washington Examiner, 10 Oct. 2025
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“Footmen.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/footmen. Accessed 16 Jan. 2026.

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