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servant::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | retainer |
| Type of | worker |
| Has types | cabin boy, domestic, domestic help, factotum, familiar, flunkey, flunky, house servant, lackey, body servant, manservant, menial, scullion, seneschal, servant girl, serving girl, major-domo |
| Derivation | serve |
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | handmaid, handmaiden |
| Type of | subsidiarity, subordinateness |
| Derivation | serve |
the state cannot be a servant of the church.
Examples of servant
servant
Former civil servant who worked mainly in the Department for Trade and Industry.
From the ealingtimes.co.uk
There, Najin is forced to live in mean conditions, working as an unpaid servant.
From the washingtontimes.com
Truly a servant of God's wishes, instead of everyone else's or those of his own?
From the blog.beliefnet.com
The vicar had a maid-servant who was pregnant and she drowned herself in a pond.
From the independent.co.uk
Philippe was considered aloof and awkward, with the charisma of a civil servant.
From the independent.co.uk
Waiting on her is her servant, Recep, a dwarf and the doctor's illegitimate son.
From the kansas.com
Boullet, who insists that as a civil servant she is entirely apolitical, agrees.
From the guardian.co.uk
Romney should run for senate if he really wants to be a public servant so badly.
From the economist.com
Francis of Assisi, an admirer of nature and a servant to the poor and destitute.
From the cnn.com
- A person working in the service of another (especially in the household)
- Handmaid: in a subordinate position; "theology should be the handmaiden of ethics"; "the state cannot be a servant of the church"
- A domestic worker is someone who works within the employer's household. Domestic workers perform a variety of household services for an individual or a family, from providing care for children and elderly dependents to cleaning and household maintenance, known as housekeeping. ...
- Servant was a Christian rock group that grew out of the counter-culture Jesus Movement of the sixties and seventies. The band was founded in Victoria, British Columbia in 1976 and performed to audiences throughout North America, Europe and Australia for over 12 years. ...
- In CORBA, a Servant is the invocation target, containing methods for handling the remote method invocations. ...
- The Servant is the debut album of the London-based alternative band The Servant in 2004, released on the Prolifica Records label. The limited edition contained 15 tracks and totalled an hour in length.
- The Servant were an English alternative band, formed in London in 1998. They are popular in Britain, France, Italy, as well as other European countries and western Canada.
- The Servant is Harold Pinter's 1963 film adaptation of the 1948 novel by Robin Maugham. A British production directed by Joseph Losey, it stars Dirk Bogarde, Sarah Miles, Wendy Craig, and James Fox.
- (The Servants) The Servants were an indie pop band formed in 1985 in Hayes, Middlesex, England by singer and songwriter David Westlake, along with John Mohan (guitar, keyboards), Philip King (bass, guitar), and John Wills (drums) (of The Wishing Stones).
