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 of manservant
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.
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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
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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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for manservant
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The former dining room, where there’s an outlet in the floor that was used to connect to a bell for servants, is now the library.Wendy Goodman, Curbed, 3 Dec. 2024
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In the early decades, over the summer break, some students were sent to work as servants in white homes.Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 30 Nov. 2024
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Originally Published: December 14, 2024 at 5:00 AM EST Most Popular Most Popular Grand jury indicts Orlando man with defrauding donors of money meant for Trump, DeSantis, other campaigns A homeless man got five years in prison for a $30 drug delivery.Amy Drew Thompson, Orlando Sentinel, 14 Dec. 2024
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Statistic of the week: One less There's one less white supremacist working at JP Morgan Chase after the Texas Observer revealed that a man working for the company was also running one of the most influential neo-Nazi accounts on X.Will Carless, USA TODAY, 14 Dec. 2024
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But her perfect life is violently upended on her wedding day when a group of hitmen storms the celebration, killing her groom.Veronica Villafañe, Forbes, 10 Dec. 2024
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The eclipse was scheduled to begin at 11:35 a.m., so the bride, 31, and groom, 39, told their 100 guests to arrive at their wedding as early as possible in anticipation of heavy traffic and cars that may pull over on the sides of the country roads for the eclipse.Ashlyn Robinette, People.com, 10 Dec. 2024
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Of the 79 injured, 64 were fans, 10 were police officers and five were match stewards.Matias Grez, CNN, 2 Dec. 2024
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The order’s practices were set down by the first chief steward, Marc Lescarbot, a lawyer and poet in the colony at Port-Royal.Melanie Stetson Freeman, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Nov. 2024
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Trump's advisers are fully aware that with such a thin GOP Senate majority, Hegseth's fate could all come down to the women in the conference.Jonathan Karl, ABC News, 5 Dec. 2024
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The situation worsened when the woman discovered her husband had caught his mother doing the same thing the previous week but hadn't told her.Jason Fields, Newsweek, 5 Dec. 2024
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Google today announced Gemini 2, a new version of its flagship AI model that has been trained to plan and execute tasks on a user’s computers and the web, and which can chat like a person and make sense of the physical world as a virtual butler.Will Knight, WIRED, 11 Dec. 2024
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In addition, guests can request dedicated butler service to unpack or pack two items per person during the duration of the stay and a one-way transfer to or from the airport or main train stations.Julianna Bragg, CNN, 9 Dec. 2024
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“Manservant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/manservant. Accessed 18 Dec. 2024.
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