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
Ellen scoffs, not knowing who this Brian person is, to which the random servant is referring.
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Lincee Ray Published, EW.com, 22 Aug. 2025
Thank you to my fellow civilian servants who are valiantly opposing this regime.
—Marni Rose McFall, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Aug. 2025
Mauigoa was previously named to the Wuerffel Trophy watch list, which is awarded to the nation’s best community servant.
—Adam Lichtenstein, Sun Sentinel, 12 Aug. 2025
Stories of haughty people scheming and plucky servants improving alarm clocks attract smaller audiences than, say, trench warfare.
—Elle Carroll, Vulture, 11 Aug. 2025
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Lincee Ray Published, EW.com, 22 Aug. 2025
Thank you to my fellow civilian servants who are valiantly opposing this regime.
—Marni Rose McFall, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Aug. 2025
Mauigoa was previously named to the Wuerffel Trophy watch list, which is awarded to the nation’s best community servant.
—Adam Lichtenstein, Sun Sentinel, 12 Aug. 2025
Stories of haughty people scheming and plucky servants improving alarm clocks attract smaller audiences than, say, trench warfare.
—Elle Carroll, Vulture, 11 Aug. 2025
See All Example Sentences for servant
Recent Examples of Synonyms for servant
Noun
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For the first time, the ceremonial movement Solstice Unites will open the Global Citizen Festival and present a historic Global Powwow to honor the land and the ancestral stewards of the grounds.—
Kirsten Chuba,
HollywoodReporter,
4 Sep. 2025
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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
Noun
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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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Ella Beaty will play Lizzie, while Rebecca Hall will play Lizzie’s stepmother, Abby, and Vicky Krieps will play Bridget Sullvan, a maid in the Borden household.—
Joe Otterson,
Variety,
2 Sep. 2025
Noun
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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
Noun
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That includes the relationship between former butler Thomas Barrow (Robert James-Collier) and Guy Dexter (Dominic West), which first formed in 2022’s A New Era.—
Samantha Allen,
Them.,
2 Sep. 2025
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When the trio arrived at the hospital, Diana's body was alone with her butler, Paul Burrell, and her driver, Colin Tebbutt.—
Stephanie Kaloi,
People.com,
31 Aug. 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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This is about the president of the United States and his complicit lackey Stephen Miller searching for ways to lay the groundwork to circumvent our democracy, militarize our cities and end elections.—
Andrew Stanton,
MSNBC Newsweek,
2 Sep. 2025
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“Servant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/servant. Accessed 8 Sep. 2025.
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