as in steward
a person hired to perform household or personal services
the wealthy family had servants to clean and cook for them
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Recent Examples of servant
Inside, the mansion’s sprawling basement kitchen, once staffed by dozens of servants, cleverly doubles as the Russells’ New York kitchen.
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Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 10 June 2025
In the end, the only charge that ever stuck in the murder case was an indictment against one of the family’s former servants.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 6 June 2025
Born in Antigua, Kincaid was sent to New York by her mother to work as a servant, and Kincaid never looked back, making herself into a writer.
—Chris Vognar, Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2025
Although the servant admits that Hamm has been like a father to him, their relationship is also highly dysfunctional.
—Emily McClanathan, Chicago Tribune, 27 May 2025
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Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 10 June 2025
In the end, the only charge that ever stuck in the murder case was an indictment against one of the family’s former servants.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 6 June 2025
Born in Antigua, Kincaid was sent to New York by her mother to work as a servant, and Kincaid never looked back, making herself into a writer.
—Chris Vognar, Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2025
Although the servant admits that Hamm has been like a father to him, their relationship is also highly dysfunctional.
—Emily McClanathan, Chicago Tribune, 27 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for servant
Noun
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Producers include longtime franchise stewards Frank Marshall and Patrick Crowley, with Spielberg and Denis Stewart exec producing.—
Pamela McClintock,
HollywoodReporter,
1 July 2025
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It’s meant to thrill, not replicate a steward’s report.—
Kanzah Maktoum,
Forbes.com,
29 June 2025
Noun
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You as a cook, a chef, a butler, a maid, the engineer.—
Lexy Perez,
HollywoodReporter,
16 June 2025
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Often Black women were relegated to stereotypical roles as maids, mammies, or exoticized figures.—
Ime Ekpo,
Forbes.com,
8 June 2025
Noun
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If enacted, the wage mandate would affect thousands of workers in San Diego, from hotel housekeepers to ballpark ticket takers and zookeepers, some of whom would see their hourly pay rise by as much as 45% from the city’s current minimum wage of $17.25 an hour.—
Lori Weisberg,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
25 June 2025
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Actresses mentioned in the running included Judith Anderson (the housekeeper in Hitchcock’s Rebecca) and Helen Hayes.—
Marc Berman,
Forbes.com,
16 June 2025
Noun
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Every suite features a private pool to watch those epic sunsets while the 3,230-square-foot Villa Diane also comes with a butler.—
Melinda Sheckells,
Forbes.com,
20 June 2025
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Idiotic rich boy Bertie Wooster gets himself into some kind of sticky situation with another rich idiot, and his quietly sarcastic, above-it-all, genius butler Jeeves inevitably gets him out of it.—
Brian Boone,
Vulture,
18 June 2025
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And is order based on legalized violence and theft really order? Bulgakov would have had little time for a Bolshevik lackey like Samson.—
Uilleam Blacker,
The Atlantic,
4 June 2025
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Orwell’s warnings apply across the board, not just when obvious despots and lackeys let their fascist flags fly.—
Sheri Linden,
HollywoodReporter,
17 May 2025
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“Servant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/servant. Accessed 5 Jul. 2025.
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