servant

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English [edit]

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Etymology [edit]

From Old French servant.

Pronunciation [edit]

Noun [edit]

servant (plural servants)

  1. One who serves another, providing help in some manner.
    She is quite the humble servant, the poor in this city owe much to her but she expects nothing.
  2. One who is hired to perform regular household or other duties, and receives compensation. As opposed to a slave.
    There are three servants in the household, the butler and two maids.

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Translations [edit]

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Verb [edit]

servant (third-person singular simple present servants, present participle servanting, simple past and past participle servanted)

  1. (obsolete) To subject.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.

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French [edit]

Verb [edit]

servant

  1. Present participle of servir.

Noun [edit]

servant m (plural servants; feminine servante, plural servantes)

  1. servant

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Latin [edit]

Verb [edit]

servant

  1. third-person plural present active indicative of servō

Middle English [edit]

Etymology [edit]

Old French servant, originally the present participle of servir

Noun [edit]

servant (plural servants)

  1. servant

Norwegian [edit]

Noun [edit]

servant (m)

  1. any washbasin
  2. a sink

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Old French [edit]

Adjective [edit]

servant

  1. that serves; that fulfils a role

Noun [edit]

servant m (oblique plural servanz, nominative singular servanz, nominative plural servant)

  1. servant (one who serves)

Descendants [edit]