servant
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++ser·vant /ˈsɜːvənt $ ˈsɜːr-/ ●●○ noun [countable] 1 BOsomeone, especially in the past, who was paid to clean someone’s house, cook for them, answer the door etc, and who often lived in the house 〔尤指旧时的〕仆人，佣人 Many young girls became domestic servants. 许多年轻姑娘成了家仆。2 servant of somebody/something USE A PERSONsomeone who is controlled by someone or something – often used to show disapproval 某人/某物的奴仆〔常含贬义〕 Are we the servants of computers? 我们是电脑的奴隶吗？ → civil servantExamples from the Corpus
servant• His servant hastened to make all ready, build fires and heat water for the baths and prepare food.• To be this man's servant - what was there to be proud in that?• Even with the furnace on, he had the servants put coal in the grates of most of the rooms.• Is he master of this universe or the servant of its masters?• The servant was frightened and ran away.domestic servants• In Oxford, out of 312 boys, 119 became errand lads, while 110 girls out of 223 became domestic servants.• Swift, Richardson, Fielding, and others, fasten upon the conflicts between domestic servants and their masters.• Edinburgh had practically no textile workers, men or women; but as we have seen it had a great many domestic servants.• For most domestic servants though, the occupation was a temporary life-cycle one.• Presumably the decline of domestic servants to launder the disgusting handkerchiefs.• The lot of domestic servants in the eighteenth century was in general less difficult than that of farm-workers.• It also contained an immense number of domestic servants and other members of royal, baronial and ecclesiastical households.Origin servant (1100-1200) Old French present participle of servir; → SERVE1ser·vant nounChineseSyllable
someone, who the especially to was clean in Corpus paid past,
servant
ser‧vant W2 /ˈsɜːvənt $ ˈsɜːr-/
noun [countable]
Many young girls became domestic servants.
2. servant of somebody/something someone who is controlled by someone or something – often used to show disapproval:
Are we the servants of computers?
⇨ civil servant
ser‧vant W2 /ˈsɜːvənt $ ˈsɜːr-/
noun [countable] Word Family: noun: servant, serve, server, service, disservice, the services, serving, servery, servicing, servility, servitude; adjective: serviceable, servile, serving; verb: serve, service
1. someone, especially in the past, who was paid to clean someone’s house, cook for them, answer the door etc, and who often lived in the house: 2. servant of somebody/something someone who is controlled by someone or something – often used to show disapproval:
⇨ civil servant
