servant

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Alternative forms

servaunt (obsolete)

Etymology

From Old French servant.

Pronunciation

(RP) IPA: /ˈsɜːvənt/, X-SAMPA: /"s3:v@nt/
(GenAm) IPA: /ˈsɝvənt/, X-SAMPA: /"s3`v@nt/
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Noun

servant (plural servants)

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.
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.

Derived terms

Translations

one who serves another, providing help in some manner

Amharic: ሎሌ (am) (lole) m
Arabic: خادم (ar) (xādim) m
Burmese: please add this translation if you can
Chinese:
僕人 (cmn), 仆人 (cmn) (púrén)
Czech: služebník (cs) m

Finnish: palvelija (fi)
German: Helfer (de) m
Greek: υπηρέτης (el) (ypirétis) m
Indonesian: pelayan (id)
Khmer: អ្នកបំរើ (km) (neak bɑmrəə)
Scottish Gaelic: searbhanta (gd) m and f, seirbhiseach (gd) m
Tigrinya: ከዳሚ (ti) (kedami) m

one who is hired to perform regular household or other duties, and receives compensation

Czech: sluha (cs) m, služebný (cs) m
Finnish: palvelija (fi)
German: Diener (de) m
Greek: υπάλληλος (el) (ypállilos) m and f
Indonesian: pembantu (id)

Polish: służący (pl) m, służąca (pl) f
Russian: слуга́ (ru) (slugá) m, служа́нка (ru) (služánka) f
Scottish Gaelic: searbhanta (gd) m and f, seirbhiseach (gd) m

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Albanian: shërbëtor (sq) m
Arabic: خادم (ar) (khaadim) m, خادمة (ar) (khaadima) f
Egyptian Arabic: خدام (khadam) m
Armenian: ծառա (hy) (çaṙa), սպասավոր (hy) (spasavor)
Catalan: criat (ca) m, criada (ca) f
Dutch: hulp (nl) (2), hulpje (nl), (2), huishoudhulp (nl) (2), bediende (nl) (2), knecht (nl) m (2), meid (nl) f (2)
Esperanto: servisto (eo)
Estonian: teener (et)
Ewe: dɔla
Tagalog: tagapaglingkod (tl)
French: domestique (fr), serviteur (fr) m
Greek: υπηρέτης (el) (ipirétis) m, υπάλληλος (el) (ipálilos) m
Haitian Creole: sèvitè
Hebrew: עבד (he) (eved)
Hindi: नौकर (hi) (naukar) m
Hungarian: szolga (hu), cseléd (hu)
Italian: servo (it) m, servitore (it) m and f

Japanese: 召使い (ja) (めしつかい, meshitsukai)
Korean: 하인 (ko) (hain)
Kurdish: نۆکه‌ر (ku) (noker)
Sorani: به‌رده‌ست (ku) (berdest), خزمه‌تکار (ku) (xizmetkár)
Macedonian: слуга (mk) (slúga) m, слугинка (mk) (slúginka) f, измеќар (mk) (ízmeḱar) m, измеќарка (mk) (ízmeḱarka) f, момок (mk) (mómok) m
Maltese: qaddej (mt) m, qaddeja (mt) f, servjent (mt) m, servjenta (mt) f, seftur (mt) m, seftura (mt) f, rufjan (mt) m, rufjana (mt) f
Old English: þeġen (ang) m (1)
Portuguese: servente (pt) m and f, criado (pt) m, serviçal (pt) m and f
Romanian: servitor (ro) m, slugă (ro) m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic слу́га (sh) f, слу̀жа̄вка (sh) f

Roman: slúga (sh) f, slùžāvka (sh) f
Spanish: sirviente (es) m and f, criado (es) m, criada (es) f
Swahili: utumishi (sw)
Swedish: betjänt (sv), tjänare (sv) c, tjänstefolk (sv) n, hjon (sv) n
Telugu: సేవకుడు (te) (sēvakuḍu)
Urdu: نوکر (ur) (naukar) m

Verb

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

(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.