Synonyms for servant
Definitions
- n. 1
One who is hired to perform regular household or other duties, and receives compensation. As opposed to a slave.
There are three servants in the household, the butler and two maids.
- n. 2
One who serves another, providing help in some manner.
She is quite the humble servant, the poor in this city owe much to her but she expects nothing.
Related words
- Word family
- servantess
- Phrases
- civil servant public servant assigned servant indentured servant
Forms
- Plural
- servants → lackeys, servitors, slaves, vassals…
Example sentences
- slave Marriage is slavery. I'd prefer not to be a slave.
- vassal Europe today is a political vassal of the USA.
- lackey You treat me like a lackey and I don't like it.
- servitor But to-night the elderly servitor was solemn and unloquacious beyond his custom.
- maid Amanda got a job as a maid at an expensive hotel.
- handmaiden In 1492 Antonio de Nebrija said that language is the handmaiden of empire.
By length
- 4 letters
- help1, maid1, serf1
- 5 letters
- slave1, groom1, valet2
- 6 letters
- butler2, waiter2, helper2, minion2, lackey2, vassal2, menial3, stooge1, drudge1, flunky
- 7 letters
- orderly3
- 8 letters
- domestic3, retainer3, henchman2, servitor, factotum
- 9 letters
- dependent3, attendant3, dependant, underling3
- 10 letters
- handmaiden
- 11 letters
- subordinate4
- 13 letters
- understrapper
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (valet2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- domestique
- Español
- criado