SERVANTS Synonyms: 48 Similar and Opposite Words

servants

noun

plural of servant

as in maids

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 servants Banks paid millions of dollars by today’s standards to bring along a botanist, artists, servants, his greyhound and scientific equipment. — Saar Shahar, The Conversation, 12 Oct. 2026 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 Egyptologists have long debated whether the earliest pharaohs of the First Dynasty were buried with various servants and officials to serve them in the afterlife—a form of human sacrifice. — Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 5 Oct. 2026 This is the kind of show where an opulent tea party is dramatized not just by many different plates of fancy pastries, fancy wreaths and lots of furniture, but by having all that stuff carted in by a dozen or so butlers, maids and other servants. — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 1 Oct. 2026 His lens democratizes power the contrived space of the studio set, with the goal of empowering real-life servants. — Damaly Gonzalez, ARTnews.com, 30 Sep. 2026 It's often weakened by attacks on the institutions and the public servants sworn to uphold it. — Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 29 Sep. 2026 Many became lifelong friends, and role models for me as husbands, fathers, workers and community servants. — Tom Strong, Chicago Tribune, 20 Sep. 2026 Job lost his animals, servants, and 10 children in a single afternoon. — Robert Steinbuch, Arkansas Online, 18 Sep. 2026

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Noun

This is the kind of show where an opulent tea party is dramatized not just by many different plates of fancy pastries, fancy wreaths and lots of furniture, but by having all that stuff carted in by a dozen or so butlers, maids and other servants.

— Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 1 Oct. 2026
Jackson was particularly vocal in her criticism of the show’s shallow scripts, which featured plotlines about them going undercover as French maids, showgirls, lifeguards and, perhaps most infamously, prison inmates.

— Michael Callahan, HollywoodReporter, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of maids

Noun

In a testament to its authenticity, one of the hotel’s housekeepers trashed part of the installation.

— Hikmat Mohammed, ARTnews.com, 15 Oct. 2026
Everyone from the front-desk employees to the housekeepers to the yoga instructors were helpful and attentive.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2026

Definition of housekeepers

Noun

Today, the brand’s stewards are a mix of veteran producers and relative newcomers who have kept the fanbase alive by using the IP to platform filmmakers with a remarkable array of creative talents.

— Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 8 Oct. 2026
Awash with new property tax funds, local governments often haven’t been careful stewards of residents’ tax dollars.

— Elaine Parker, The Orlando Sentinel, 24 Sep. 2026

Definition of stewards

Noun

The archaic legal restrictions restricting same-sex couples or unmarried women, for example, are acknowledged and adhered to, rather than being openly challenged or criticized.

— Guy Lodge, Variety, 11 Oct. 2026
At Lumalia Emmy Armstrong’s Holy Rage Retreats in the Oregon woods near Portland, small groups of women gather among the trees, expressing themselves through sound and movement.

— Tatiana Sataua, Fortune, 11 Oct. 2026

Definition of women

Noun

For Burr, that his character, in reality, had been replaced by corporate lackeys explains so much of what’s wrong with the world.

— Chris O'Falt, IndieWire, 10 Oct. 2026
These are perfunctory roles by definition, so lackeys of one kind or another are often favored.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Aug. 2026

Definition of lackeys

Noun

With a dedicated mobile phone to contact your butlers, every need is effortlessly addressed.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2026
This is the kind of show where an opulent tea party is dramatized not just by many different plates of fancy pastries, fancy wreaths and lots of furniture, but by having all that stuff carted in by a dozen or so butlers, maids and other servants.

— Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 1 Oct. 2026

Definition of butlers

Noun

The retainers were with two law firms, Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton and the Law Offices of Young, Minney & Corr, and financial adviser Arch + Beam Global.

— Chaewon Chung, Sacbee.com, 15 Oct. 2026
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

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