manservant

noun

Definition of manservantnext
as in servant
old-fashioned a man employed in the home of a wealthy person to perform various household or personal services The loyal manservant earned the trust of the emperor.

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Recent Examples of manservant He is also said to have been a water boy and manservant to an Anderson family member who was a Confederate soldier during the Civil War. — John Wrory Ficklin, Time, 11 Feb. 2026 The dialogue is witty and the characters are memorable, particularly Boris Karloff as hulking manservant Morgan. — Katie Rife, Entertainment Weekly, 30 Oct. 2025 These included a gentleman singing with his manservant on Mardi Gras, seven apprentices of a ribbon maker singing together, and a woman charged for singing while working in her house and yard, among many others. — Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 9 May 2025 The show is sharpest when its sights are fixed on Norma and Joe, and also on the looming figure of Norma’s manservant and eternal enabler, Max. — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 20 Oct. 2024 See All Example Sentences for manservant
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  1. servant
  2. man
  3. groom
  4. steward
  5. woman
  6. butler
Noun
  • The remains of these servants, or retainers, were first excavated from the funerary complexes at Abydos, eastern Egypt, which date from around 3000 BC, in the 1920s.
    — Jack Guy, CNN Money, 7 Oct. 2026
  • Astonishingly, a servant’s wages amounted to only $3,750 to $4,500 per year.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 6 Oct. 2026
Definition of servant
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  • The former weapon of mass destruction has been in hiding for some time, but a bounty hunter tracks him down and disrupts his quiet life before also discovering a young man who appears to be Vision’s son.
    — Tracy Brown, Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2026
  • The jury members, comprising eight men and four women, took their place in Courtroom 3 of Southwark Crown Court for the first time.
    — Jake Kanter, Deadline, 14 Oct. 2026
Definition of man
Noun
  • Your work has long played with pleasure, kink and the tension between what is proper and what is provocative — from your infamous jockstraps to the recent patent leather groom who closed the recent men’s show in Milan.
    — Tyler Matthew Oyer, Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2026
  • The second slide was a video (without sound) of the couple’s first kiss, which King prefaced with what looked like a howl of joy, followed by a series of passionate kisses and an arms-in-the-air yelp from the groom.
    — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 5 Oct. 2026
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  • The problem has long caused tension between Iowa’s more liberal urban centers, which rely on rivers and lakes for drinking water, and mostly conservative stewards of its rich farmland.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 14 Oct. 2026
  • The problem has long caused tension between Iowa's more liberal urban centers, which rely on rivers and lakes for drinking water, and mostly conservative stewards of its rich farmland.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 14 Oct. 2026
Definition of steward
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  • Suffice it to say the mystery bullets that landed in Rate Field’s bleachers in 2023 and wounded two women definitely aren’t relevant to this feel-good story but are worth mentioning to remind us how much the Sox narrative has changed.
    — Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 9 Oct. 2026
  • The actual point of the scene, however, is for both women to talk about their relationships.
    — Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 9 Oct. 2026
Definition of woman
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  • The kitchen features an island, a wine refrigerator, stainless steel appliances and a butler’s pantry.
    — Kim Quillen, Chicago Tribune, 8 Oct. 2026
  • All 228 rooms come with a personal butler, who’s at your beck and call 24/7.
    — Condé Nast, cntraveler.com, 7 Oct. 2026
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“Manservant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/manservant. Accessed 15 Oct. 2026.

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