MANSERVANT Synonyms: 49 Similar and Opposite Words

manservant

noun

as in servant

old-fashioned a man employed in the home of a wealthy person to perform various household or personal services The loyal manservant earned the trust of the emperor.

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Recent Examples on the Web Its expansiveness starts to feel grotesque, and so do the combinations of coolness and glee with which this odd manservant runs through the shadowy, crushing facts. —

Simon Callow, The New York Review of Books, 22 Dec. 2022 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates. —

Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 25 Aug. 2023 In his younger days he had been known to creep up on his first owner, the colleague’s future husband, and drop on him suddenly from above, like a feline version of Cato, Inspector Clouseau’s manservant. —

Gregory Hays, The New York Review of Books, 1 June 2023 Scurrying to his side like rats on a Titanic lifeboat are son-in-law Tom (Matthew Macfadyen) and his faithful manservant Greg (Nicholas Braun). —

Vulture, 2 Mar. 2023 See all Example Sentences for manservant

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Noun

Initially introduced as the faithful servant of his master Nandor, Guillermo was later revealed to be descended from a famous family of vampire hunters, the Van Helsings.

Tracy Brown, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2024
Emmerich the necromancer spends his time in graveyards talking to the dead and being attended to by his skeletal servant Manfred.

Kazuma Hashimoto, Them, 28 Oct. 2024