noun. One who is privately employed to perform domestic services.

noun. One who is publicly employed to perform services, as for a government.

noun. One who expresses submission, recognizance, or debt to another.

To subject; subordinate.

To furnish with one or more servants.

noun. One who serves or attends, whether voluntarily or involuntarily; a person employed by another, and subject to his orders; one who exerts himself or herself, or labors, for the benefit of a master or an employer; an attendant; a subordinate assistant; an agent.

noun. Specifically

noun. A bondman or bondwoman; a slave.

noun. (b A person hired for a specified time to do manual or field labor; a laborer.

noun. A person in domestic service; a household or personal attendant; a domestic; a menial. An upper servant is one who has assistants under him or her, as a butler, a head cook, or a head coachman; an under servant is one who takes orders from an upper one, as an under-nurse, a scullery-maid, or a groom.

noun. One in a state of subjection.

noun. One who dedicates himself to the service of another; one who professes himself ready to do the will of another. See phrases below.

noun. A professed lover. The correlative term mistress is still in use.

noun. 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.

noun. One in a state of subjection or bondage.

noun. A professed lover or suitor; a gallant.

noun. one debased to the lowest condition of servitude.

noun. phrases of civility formerly often used in closing a letter, now archaic; -- at one time such phrases were exaggerated to include Your most humble, most obedient servant.

noun. undefined

transitive verb. To subject.

noun. One who serves another, providing help in some manner.

noun. One who is hired to perform regular household or other duties, and receives compensation. As opposed to a slave.

verb. To subject.

noun. in a subordinate position

noun. a person working in the service of another (especially in the household)

"Yours truly; Truly yours; Yours respectfully; Very respectfully yours_, etc. In official letters use _I have the honor to be, Sir, your obedient servant; Very respectfully, your most obedient servant_."

agent  assigned servant  civil servant  company's servant  her majesty's servants  

your obedient servant  

assigned servant  civil servant  maidservant  manservant  public servant  

subordinateness  subsidiarity  

fervent  observant  

bow  brother  citizen  clerk  companion  

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