| 释义 |
servant /sûrˈvənt/ noun- Someone who is hired to perform service, esp personal or domestic service of a menial kind, or farm labour, for another or others
- A person who is in the service of the state, the public, a company, or other body
- Someone who serves in any capacity
- A ministrant
- Formerly, a man conventionally accepted by a lady (called his mistress) as binding himself to devoted attendance, a lover
- In formal letter-writing, formerly in greeting and leave-taking, now usu jocularly, applied in seeming humility to oneself
- A designation formerly used in the USA for a slave
- (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) |