Word Finder - servant

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One who is hired to perform regular household or other duties, and receives compensation. As opposed to a slave.

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There are three servants in the household, the butler and two maids.

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One who serves another, providing help in some manner.

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She is quite the humble servant, the poor in this city owe much to her but she expects nothing.

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A person who dedicates themselves to God.

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A professed lover.

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A person of low condition or spirit.

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To subject.

The servant complained to her master.

Government is the servant of the people, not the master.

What kind of father treats his daughter as a servant her entire life and lies to her about pretty much everything?

Dean spotted another public servant at the liquor store.

I lived, up to the time of the illness that deprived me of my sight and hearing, in a tiny house consisting of a large square room and a small one, in which the servant slept.

I meet his servant come to draw water for his master, and our buckets as it were grate together in the same well.

The cuneiform symbols on his back were purple, marking him as a servant to the Others.

And the old servant got down from the box and went up to the cart.

He led her to a bench in the middle of the house and glanced at an awaiting servant, who darted away.

As a low-level servant, she'd never seen any of the powerful immortals.

Artaxata and Tigranocerta were captured, and Tigranes, who had been brought up in Rome and was the obedient servant of the government, was installed king of Armenia.

In 1893 an act was passed by parliament giving the Board power to interfere if or when representations are made to them by or on behalf of any servant or class of servants of a railway company that the hours of work are unduly long, or do not provide sufficient intervals of uninterrupted rest between the periods of duty, or sufficient relief in respect of Sunday duty.

He bore throughout his career the reputation of an intelligent and upright public servant.

Just then a loud cackling was heard outside; and, when a servant threw open the door with a low bow, a yellow hen strutted in.

Ethel would have listed him as a lazy, unam­bitious civil servant with a lifestyle as exciting as limp toast.

Our lord even chose the man I was to wed, another lesser servant in need of wife.

He is servant of Agni the god of light and of Varuna the divine judge.

The new chief secretary, while abstaining from displacing the undersecretary, whose encouragement of " devolution " had caused considerable commotion among Unionists, announced that he considered him as on the footing of an ordinary and subordinate civil servant, but Mr Wyndham had said that he was " invited by me rather as a colleague than as a mere undersecretary to register my will," and Lord Lansdowne that he " could scarcely expect to be bound by the narrow rules of routine which are applicable to an ordinary member of the civil service."

All the attractions of a house were concentrated in one room; it was kitchen, chamber, parlor, and keeping-room; and whatever satisfaction parent or child, master or servant, derive from living in a house, I enjoyed it all.

An old man, a servant of the princesses, sat in a corner knitting a stocking.

His servant was also a yellow, wrinkled old man, without beard or mustache, evidently not because he was shaven but because they had never grown.

He did not find the civil servant or his wife where he had left them.

In a scene from the film Gone With the Wind, the main character, Scarlett O'Hara, winces while her servant pulls the strings tight on her undergarment.

With Frodo are his three friends, Merry and Pippin, cousins of a sort, and Sam, son of his gardener and essentially Frodo's servant and valet.

He hadn't been able to during their time together when she was a goddess and he her servant.

Jenn was from a servant's house, so lowborn she was barely off the streets.

As the lower ranking of the married couple, the name of Jenn's betrothed was added to her family's record, indicating he was likely the son of another servant.

I was betrothed when I was sixteen to another servant.

There was a reason Sirian remained the embittered but somewhat faithful servant.

He left through the servant's door and rushed through the hold to the dungeon.

Wakefield was for a short time at Westminster School, and was brought up to his father's profession, which he relinquished on occasion of his elopement at the age of twenty with Miss Pattle, the orphan daughter of an Indian civil servant.

Of far more vital importance is the conception of Israel as God's suffering servant.

This system, by diminishing the freeman's mastery over himself and his power to determine his occupation, reduced the interval between him and the slave; and the latter on the one hand, the free domestic servant and workshop labourer on the other, both passed insensibly into the common condition of serfdom.

Wesley put down many severe things against himself on the return voyage, and he saw afterwards that even then he had the faith of a servant though not.

A fugitive slave clause was inserted in the Articles of Confederation of the New England Confederation of 1643, providing for the return of the fugitive upon the certificate of one magistrate in the jurisdiction out of which the said servant fled - no trial by jury being provided for.

The Frankish kings of the Merovingian dynasty retained the Roman system of administration, and under them the word comes preserved its original meaning; the comes was a companion of the king, a royal servant of high rank.

It is the more curious that the gerefa should end as a servant ("reeve"), the Graf as a noble (count).

Fay's singular powers in this direction were well shown by his Jdvor orvos es Bakator Ambrus szolgdja (Doctor Javor and his servant Ambrose Bakator), brought out at Pest in 1855.

Shepstone determined to dispense with his further services as a government servant, and terminated the engagement.

Then another mysterious form appears on the scene, bearing the honourable title of "Servant of Yahweh," through whom God's gracious purposes for Israel and the world are to be realized.

Is it possible, one cannot help asking, that the abrupt description of the strange fortunes of the "Servant" - by this time entirely personalized - was written to follow chap. lii.

It appears to be traceable in its Greek dress in writings of the philosopher Democritus and the dramatist Menander; it was certainly known to the author of Tobit and perhaps to the author of Daniel; some would trace its influence in the New Testament, in the parable of the wicked servant and elsewhere; it was known to Mahomet and is referred to in the Koran; it has been included among the tales in the Arabian Nights; and it survives in a good many versions ancient and modern.

This was creditable to both parties, for Lamartine, both as a distinguished man of letters and as a past servant of the state, had every claim to the bounty of his country.

On the death of Henry III., after having supported for some time the cardinal de Bourbon, the head of the league against the king, Duperron became a faithful servant of Henry IV., and in 1591 was created by him bishop of Evreux.

He was now known as a thoroughly trustworthy servant of the despotic royalty, but he was too proud to be a courtier.

Criminal jurisdiction in cases in which either the complainant or the defendant is a European, or American, or a government servant, or a British subject not a native of a Shan State, is withdrawn from the chiefs and vested in the superintendents and assistant superintendents.

Angad, like his predecessor, postponed the claims of his own sons to the guruship to those of Amar Das, who had been his faithful servant.

He became the servant of Amar Das, helped in the public kitchen, shampooed his master, drew water, brought firewood from the forest, and helped in the excavation of a well which Amar Das was constructing at Goindwal.

The fragments in Origen represent Jacob as speaking and claiming to be "the first servant in God's presence," "the first-begotten of every creature animated by God," and declaring that the angel who wrestled with Jacob (and was identified by Christians with Christ) was only eighth in rank.

In consequence of its use in this general sense of pensioner, "bedesman" was long used in English as equivalent to "servant."