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servitor

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WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. someone who performs the duties of an attendant for someone else

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Servitor may be used in the following contexts: Servitor , an Oxford University undergraduate student who received free accommodation Servitors , menial laborers of the Tech-Priests in the Warhammer 40,000 universe Imar the Servitor , a 1914 American silent ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Servitor \Serv"i*tor\, n. [L., fr. servire to serve: cf. F. serviteur.] One who serves; a servant; an attendant; one who acts under another; a follower or adherent. Your trusty and most valiant servitor. --Shak. (Univ. of Oxford, Eng.) An undergraduate, ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 one who performs the duties of a servant. 2 one who serves in an army; a soldier. 3 an undergraduate who performed menial duties in exchange for financial support from his college, particularly at Oxford University

Usage examples of servitor.

Senses crept in on his glacial mind, impressions garnered via affinity from the servitor scouts spread throughout the jungle.

The first two kilometres above the coves were terraced like an ancient hill farm, planted with flowering bushes and orchards tended by agronomy servitors.

This man, called Roger, and nicknamed Long Roger, his length being his chief distinction, had been very poor, and burthened besides with several infant children: accidents and a bad season brought them to the verge of starvation, when a chance threw him in the way of the Duke of Clarence, who got him made servitor in the Tower.

Simply out of habit, knowing all the turins were as dead and inoperative as the servitors and electric lights, he aligned the embroidered microcircuits in the cloth with the center of his forehead.

They had rattish pointed faces and tiny pink hands, like the servitor who had brought her the glass of shade.

Pride of flesh from bondage free, Reaping vigour of its waste, Marks her servitors, and she Sanctifies the unembraced.

One pedestrian skittered and tumbled, sending parcels every-whichway, another wet herself, a third keeled slantwise and the walk was stopped automatically by the servitors till she could be resuscitated.

One pedestrian skittered and tumbled, sending parcels everywhichway, another wet herself, a third keeled slantwise, and the walk was stopped automatically by the servitors till she could be resuscitated.

A couple of metres from the path a gardener servitor was ambling round an old tree stump which was now hidden beneath the shaggy coat of a stephanotis creeper.

Soyana corporation back in 2058, and they made a great deal of money from selling bonded servitors before the worsening social and religious situation on Earth virtually closed down the market.

The sudden change, plus the welcome sight of the oh-so-familiar servitors, plus his terror in being back in the firmary so soon after the allosaurus episode, made his legs too weak for him to stand even in the swimming-pool g-field.

Tallam had probably picked the course, through a study of the neighborhood, and had put Ashanti servitors to work.

Wrigley was replaced within two years of the Winnipeg meeting by a Smith servitor named Clarence Campbell Chipman, a former secretary to Sir Charles Tupper.

Neither the servitor nor the billions watching knew which room housed the Chuang Tzu because the feed was strangely imprecise about this.

Then Treat turned and introduced Claxon, the old servitor who was slated for a trip to Havana with Senora Hidalgo, the duenna.