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单词 servanting
释义

servant /sûrˈvənt/

noun
  1. Someone who is hired to perform service, esp personal or domestic service of a menial kind, or farm labour, for another or others
  2. A person who is in the service of the state, the public, a company, or other body
  3. Someone who serves in any capacity
  4. A ministrant
  5. Formerly, a man conventionally accepted by a lady (called his mistress) as binding himself to devoted attendance, a lover
  6. In formal letter-writing, formerly in greeting and leave-taking, now usu jocularly, applied in seeming humility to oneself
  7. A designation formerly used in the USA for a slave
  8. (in pl) formerly a designation conceded by a great personage to a company of actors, to evade legal difficulties
transitive verb (rare)

To subject

ORIGIN: Fr, prp of servir, from L servīre to serve

serˈvantless adjective

serˈvantry noun (rare)

Servants collectively

serˈvantship noun

The position or relation of a servant

serˈvant-girl, serˈvant-lass or serˈvant-maid noun

A female domestic servant

serˈvant-man noun

A male servant

servants' hall noun

A servants' dining room and sitting room

civil servant

A member of the civil service (see civil)

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