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manservant
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Word definitions for manservant in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also man-servant , 1550s, from man (n.) + servant .
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a man servant [also: menservants (pl)]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Manservant \Man"serv`ant\, n. A male servant.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A male servant.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Adelelm and his manservant were caught in a storm one night. ▪ As she began to tick them off, a manservant rushed up with a magnum of champagne. ▪ He was made a great pet of by Edouard's manservant , George, and by his cook. ...
Usage examples of manservant.
Perhaps, no certainly, a manservant would have been better for the task of companion, but Asherah had bent custom and braved comment as much as even the sole heiress of a wealthy merchant might dare.
The manservant brutally twisted my arms in their sockets, and together he and Bluebeard threw me back into my chair.
From the neck down he looked, indeed, like a European manservant: tight black trousers, striped vest, bobtailed black jacket.
Savage dwarfed his manservant, who stood at the door with bootjack in one hand, slippers in the other.
He and John Carnegie had, as usual, been forced to chase down a naked Roman Gervase and wrestle him into the patrol car around ten and then deliver him home and into the hands of his extremely polite and soft-spoken manservant.
Tuesday, when I had spent all the morning in listening to Mother Clochette, I wanted to go upstairs to her again during the day after picking hazelnuts with the manservant in the wood behind the farm.
Well, one Tuesday, when I had spent all the morning in listening to Mother Clochette, I wanted to go upstairs to her again during the day after picking hazelnuts with the manservant in the wood behind the farm.
A manservant enters, and bars the window-shutters with numerous bolts.
Eager to see Oriana and her handsome Manxman together for the first time, she was disappointed that the singer and Suke Barry had traveled in one chaise, the baronet and his manservant in another.
With a scrubwoman, a cook and two manservants thrown in, the price is five hundred sesterces a month.
A Negro manservant followed them, soft footed, to a small booklined study.
He noticed his manservant, Harl, talking with young Niffa, the daughter of the town ratters, and waved as he walked past, heading to the Council House.
For all his funny Cockney manner, he was now the picture of a dignified manservant.
Or reading sermons, and being catechised by their manservant, and set to learn a column of Scripture names, if they don't answer properly?
Aoun and another manservant coerced into helping carried out perhaps a dozen kegs of the Saelutian mead and concealed them in an unused storeroom.