Word Meanings - SERVANT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. One who serves, or does services, voluntarily or on compulsion; a person who is employed by another for menial offices, or for other labor, and is subject to his command; a person who labors or exerts himself for the benefit of another, his

Additional info about word: SERVANT

1. One who serves, or does services, voluntarily or on compulsion; a person who is employed by another for menial offices, or for other labor, and is subject to his command; a person who labors or exerts himself for the benefit of another, his master or employer; a subordinate helper. "A yearly hired servant." Lev. xxv. 53. Men in office have begun to think themselves mere agents and servants of the appointing power, and not agents of the government or the country. D. Webster. Note: In a legal sense, stewards, factors, bailiffs, and other agents, are servants for the time they are employed in such character, as they act in subordination to others. So any person may be legally the servant of another, in whose business, and under whose order, direction, and control, he is acting for the time being. Chitty. 2. One in a state of subjection or bondage. Thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt. Deut. v. 15. 3. A professed lover or suitor; a gallant. In my time a servant was I one. Chaucer. Servant of servants, one debased to the lowest condition of servitude. -- Your humble servant, or Your obedient servant, phrases of civility often used in closing a letter. Our betters tell us they are our humble servants, but understand us to be their slaves. Swift.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SERVANT)

• Handmaid
• Servant
• auxiliary
• supporter
• Minister
• officer
• delegate
• official
• ambassador
• subordinate
• ecclesiastic
• clergyman
• priest
• parson
• divine
• preacher
• pastor
• shepherd
• reverend
• curate
• vicar
• Serf
• Slave
• servant
• villain
• laborer

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of SERVANT)

• Lead
• rule
• command
• exact

Related words: (words related to SERVANT)

• HANDMAID; HANDMAIDEN
  A maid that waits at hand; a female servant or attendant.
• PRIESTLIKE
  Priestly. B. Jonson.
• EXACTOR
  One who exacts or demands by authority or right; hence, an extortioner; also, one unreasonably severe in injunctions or demands. Jer. Taylor.
• EXACTING
  Oppressive or unreasonably severe in making demands or requiring the exact fulfillment of obligations; harsh; severe. "A temper so exacting." T. Arnold -- Ex*act"ing*ly, adv. -- Ex*act"ing*ness, n.
• PASTORALLY
  1. In a pastoral or rural manner. 2. In the manner of a pastor.
• COMMANDING
  1. Exercising authority; actually in command; as, a commanding officer. 2. Fitted to impress or control; as, a commanding look or presence. 3. Exalted; overlooking; having superior strategic advantages; as, a commanding position. Syn.
• SHEPHERDIA
  A genus of shrubs having silvery scurfy leaves, and belonging to the same family as Elæagnus; also, any plant of this genus. See Buffalo berry, under Buffalo.
• EXACTLY
  In an exact manner; precisely according to a rule, standard, or fact; accurately; strictly; correctly; nicely. "Exactly wrought." Shak. His enemies were pleased, for he had acted exactly as their interests required. Bancroft.
• PASTORSHIP
  Pastorate. Bp. Bull.
• OFFICIALISM
  The state of being official; a system of official government; also, adherence to office routine; red-tapism. Officialism may often drift into blunders. Smiles.
• ECCLESIASTICALLY
  In an ecclesiastical manner; according ecclesiastical rules.
• VICARIAN
  A vicar. Marston.
• EXACTION
  1. The act of demanding with authority, and compelling to pay or yield; compulsion to give or furnish; a levying by force; a driving to compliance; as, the exaction to tribute or of obedience; hence, extortion. Take away your exactions from my
• VICARIOUS
  Acting as a substitute; -- said of abnormal action which replaces a suppressed normal function; as, vicarious hemorrhage replacing menstruation. (more info) turn, the position, place, or office of one person as assumed by another; akin
• PRIESTING
  The office of a priest. Milton.
• PASTORLESS
  Having no pastor.
• COMMANDATORY
  Mandatory; as, commandatory authority.
• PASTORLY
  Appropriate to a pastor. Milton.
• AMBASSADORIAL
  Of or pertaining to an ambassador. H. Walpole.
• COMMANDO
  In South Africa, a military body or command; also, sometimes, an expedition or raid; as, a commando of a hundred Boers. The war bands, called commandos, have played a great part in the . . . military history of the country. James Bryce.
• UNVICAR
  To deprive of the position or office a vicar. Strype.
• ACCURATENESS
  The state or quality of being accurate; accuracy; exactness; nicety; precision.
• OUTVILLAIN
  To exceed in villainy.
• INEXACTLY
  In a manner not exact or precise; inaccurately. R. A. Proctor.
• COLABORER
  One who labors with another; an associate in labor.
• INEXACT
  Not exact; not precisely correct or true; inaccurate.
• INSUBORDINATE
  Not submitting to authority; disobedient; rebellious; mutinous
• INACCURATE
  Not accurate; not according to truth; inexact; incorrect; erroneous; as, in inaccurate man, narration, copy, judgment, calculation, etc. The expression is plainly inaccurate. Bp. Hurd. Syn. -- Inexact; incorrect; erroneous; faulty; imperfect;
• SUBDELEGATE
  A subordinate delegate, or one with inferior powers.
• INOFFICIALLY
  Without the usual forms, or not in the official character.
• MANSERVANT
  A male servant.