Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A male servant, especially a valet.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A man who is a servant.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A male servant.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A male
servant .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a man servant
Etymologies
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Examples
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One manservant is called the baker, and does nothing but brew and bake.
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My little English cook, too, returns home with her, and my manservant is going back to Ireland to his own family.
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The manservant was the only slave she saw as they walked up the heavily tree-shaded lane to the door.
If I Pay Thee Not In Gold Lackey, Mercedes 1993
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"I will call my manservant, and we will draw up the contract."
If I Pay Thee Not In Gold Lackey, Mercedes 1993
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She longed to call her manservant to turn the fellow out of doors, but she dared not.
The Scarlet Feather Houghton Townley
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'Independently of my wish that you should not be idling about a place like this, for years to come, I feel that for a debtor in the Fleet to be attended by his manservant is a monstrous absurdity.
The Pickwick Papers Charles Dickens 1841
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'Independently of my wish that you should not be idling about a place like this, for years to come, I feel that for a debtor in the Fleet to be attended by his manservant is a monstrous absurdity.
The Pickwick papers 1836
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‘Independently of my wish that you should not be idling about a place like this, for years to come, I feel that for a debtor in the Fleet to be attended by his manservant is a monstrous absurdity.
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They are now trying to communicate with their new manservant, which is how they see you, since you are quite clearly not their mother. "
Acorna's Search McCaffrey, Anne 2001
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They are now trying to communicate with their new manservant, which is how they see you, since you are quite clearly not their mother. "
Acorna's Search McCaffrey, Anne 2001
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