Definition of Servants. Meaning of Servants. Synonyms of Servants

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Definition of Servants

Servant
Servant Serv"ant, n. [OE. servant, servaunt, F. servant, a & p. pr. of servir to serve, L. servire. See Serve, and cf. Sergeant.] 1. One who serves, or does services, voluntarily or on compulsion; a person who is employed by another for menial offices, or for other labor, and is subject to his command; a person who labors or exerts himself for the benefit of another, his master or employer; a subordinate helper. ``A yearly hired servant.' --Lev. xxv. 53. Men in office have begun to think themselves mere agents and servants of the appointing power, and not agents of the government or the country. --D. Webster. Note: In a legal sense, stewards, factors, bailiffs, and other agents, are servants for the time they are employed in such character, as they act in subordination to others. So any person may be legally the servant of another, in whose business, and under whose order, direction, and control, he is acting for the time being. --Chitty. 2. One in a state of subjection or bondage. Thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt. --Deut. v. 15. 3. A professed lover or suitor; a gallant. [Obs.] In my time a servant was I one. --Chaucer. Servant of servants, one debased to the lowest condition of servitude. Your humble servant, or Your obedient servant, phrases of civility often used in closing a letter. Our betters tell us they are our humble servants, but understand us to be their slaves. --Swift.
Servant
Servant Serv"ant, v. t. To subject. [Obs.] --Shak.

Meaning of Servants from wikipedia

- serious abuses, including slavery. Servant is an older English word for "domestic worker", though not all servants worked inside the home. Domestic service...
- public servants but not civil servants. Thus, in the UK, a civil servant is a public servant but a public servant is not necessarily a civil servant. The...
- The servants' hall is a common room for domestic workers in a great house, typically referring to the servants' dining room. If there is no separate sitting...
- to an employer in the colonies. Most indentured servants worked as farm laborers or domestic servants, although some were apprenticed to craftsmen. The...
- disappearing and servants were becoming less obvious. Roger Pratt is the architect credited with pioneering the removal of servants from dining in the...
- Irish indentured servants were Irish people who became indentured servants in territories under the control of the British Empire, such as the British...
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- Haines was in The Servants from December 1986 to August 1991. Drummer Hugh Whitaker left The Housemartins and joined The Servants in June 1987 (staying...
- The Servant Foundation, also known as The Signatry, is an American 501(c)(3) non-profit organization funded primarily by anonymous donors, that operates...
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