单词 | manservant |
释义 | manservant (once / 11420 pages) n WORD FAMILY manservant: manservants, menservants USAGE EXAMPLESIt begins in the mid-eighteen-hundreds, with Ah Ling, a migrant worker in California who becomes the manservant and personal laundryman for a railroad baron. The New Yorker(Oct 26, 2016) And then ponder these lines from Alessandra Stanley’s review in The Times: “Behind every great woman there is a manservant. Or there should be.” New York Times(Sep 26, 2016) Asked about the origins of “Loving,” Green recalled the words of a volunteer who had been a manservant: The New Yorker(Oct 10, 2016) n a man servant Hypo|Hyper butler, pantryman a manservant (usually the head servant of a household) who has charge of wines and the table footmana man employed as a servant in a large establishment (as a palace) to run errands and do chores gentleman, gentleman's gentleman, man, valet, valet de chambrea manservant who acts as a personal attendant to his employer retainer, servant a person working in the service of another (especially in the household) |
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