Synonyms for servants
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : sur-vuh nt |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈsɜr vənt |
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Définition of servants
Origin :- c.1200, "personal or domestic attendant," from Old French servant "servant; foot-soldier," noun use of servant "serving, waiting," present participle of servir "to attend, wait upon" (see serve (v.)).
- Meaning "professed lover, one devoted to the service of a lady" is from mid-14c. In North American colonies and U.S., the usual designation for "slave" 17c.-18c. (in 14c.-15c. and later in Biblical translations the word often was used to render Latin servus, Greek doulos "slave"). Public servant is attested from 1670s.
- noun person who waits on another
- Then he called for his servants and ordered them to throw the coffin into the Nile.
- Extract from : « Ancient Man » by Hendrik Willem van Loon
- One of the servants was in the hall, and opened the carriage-door for her.
- Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald
- Do not show yourselves ungrateful to the Corn by denying her servants their wages.
- Extract from : « The Trail Book » by Mary Austin
- Her establishment was not only diminished, but her servants reduced to half-pay.
- Extract from : « Handel » by Edward J. Dent
- I think they were more afraid of me than I had been of the servants at dinner.
- Extract from : « The Bacillus of Beauty » by Harriet Stark
- And when his servants, who were waiting, saw him in such a state, they thought he was the Devil.
- Extract from : « The Dream » by Emile Zola
- The servants have told him she mopes around and is getting thin and pale.
- Extract from : « The Little Colonel » by Annie Fellows Johnston
- But there are many orders which may be issued to these servants.
- Extract from : « The Call of the Twentieth Century » by David Starr Jordan
- Rising, he called one of the servants, and bade her summon Margaret.
- Extract from : « Fair Margaret » by H. Rider Haggard
- To which his servants replied, "There is nothing done for him."
- Extract from : « Female Scripture Biographies, Vol. I » by Francis Augustus Cox
Antonyms for servants
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