Crossword clues for servant
servant
- Butler or valet
- Butler or chauffeur
- Maid or butler
- Downton Abbey employee
- Butler, e.g
- Butler or maid
- "Downton Abbey" role
- Word after "public" or "civil"
- Von Stroheim, in "Sunset Boulevard"
- Vest ran (anag)
- Taverns (anag) — retainer
- Taverns (anag)
- Lurch, to the Addams family
- Helper or attendant (sometimes humble or obedient?)
- Handmaid, for one
- Anna or Thomas, on "Downton Abbey"
- "Downstairs" worker
- Government employee
- Polite bureaucrat?
- Leporello, e.g., in "Don Giovanni"
- Civil one?
- Reynaldo, to Polonius
- Maid's counterpart
- In a subordinate position
- A person working in the service of another (especially in the household)
- "Downstairs" employee
- Downstairs person
- Valet
- Lackey
- Maid watchful when old bachelor goes missing
- Employee in refurbished taverns
- Batman, for example
- He may have to wait for his money
- Domestic worker
- Domestic attendant
- Hired help
- Butler, for one
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Servant \Serv"ant\, v. t.
To subject. [Obs.]
--Shak.
Servant \Serv"ant\, n. [OE. servant, servaunt, F. servant, a & p. pr. of servir to serve, L. servire. See Serve, and cf. Sergeant.]
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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.
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One in a state of subjection or bondage.
Thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt.
--Deut. v. 15. -
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 formerly often used in closing a letter, now archaic; -- at one time such phrases were exaggerated to include Your most humble, most obedient servant.
Our betters tell us they are our humble servants, but understand us to be their slaves.
--Swift.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1200, "personal or domestic attendant," from Old French servant "servant; foot-soldier," noun use of servant "serving, waiting," present participle of servir "to attend, wait upon" (see serve (v.)).\n
\nMeaning "professed lover, one devoted to the service of a lady" is from mid-14c. In North American colonies and U.S., the usual designation for "slave" 17c.-18c. (in 14c.-15c. and later in Biblical translations the word often was used to render Latin servus, Greek doulos "slave"). Public servant is attested from 1670s.
Wiktionary
n. 1 One who is hired to perform regular household or other duties, and receives compensation. As opposed to a slave. 2 One who serves another, providing help in some manner. vb. (context obsolete English) To subject.
WordNet
n. a person working in the service of another (especially in the household) [syn: retainer]
in a subordinate position; "theology should be the handmaiden of ethics"; "the state cannot be a servant of the church" [syn: handmaid, handmaiden]
Wikipedia
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 by Jim Palosaari and performed to audiences throughout North America, Europe and Australia for over 12 years. Originally named "Higher Ground", the group later changed their name to Servant. The lyrics of their songs were known for challenging the Christian church to turn back to social justice and caring for the poor.
A Servant rock concert was like a festival event. The band was known to incorporate comedy and short skits in their sets on stage. Servant was also the first Christian rock group to use laser lights, flame tubes, fireworks, fog machines, in addition to an extensive light show and quadraphonic sound (a precursor to surround-sound).
In the early 1980s some critics considered Servant's theatrics, light shows, smoke-bombs and flash-pot stage performances too raucous to be authentically Christian. However, the band's mission was to reach the ears and hearts of those who might not feel so comfortable in church buildings. Shying away from the praise lyrics and easy-listening rock styles that typified most contemporary Christian music at the time, Servant instead attempted to offer edgy, rhythmic, passionate rock and an aggressive stage performance filled with an evangelistic Christian message, and spiced with strong social commentaries.
A CCM Magazine review of their 1981 release, Rockin' Revival, stated that the band's lyrics reflected Christian communal subculture, and contained elements of social protest and criticism.
Servant toured extensively throughout America, Europe and Australia in concert halls and at music festivals like "Creation" and "Greenbelt". They recorded 6 studio albums with songs that ranked in the Top 40 Contemporary Christian Music Charts including "Come Jesus Come", "Holding on to You", "Thank God", "We are the Light", "Surrender", "Harder to Finish", and "I Will".
From 1981 to 1985, opening acts for Servant included Grammy Award winning Petra, DeGarmo & Key, Joe English (of Paul McCartney & Wings fame), Will McFarlane (recorded with Jackson Browne), Randy Matthews, Jerusalem, and Steve Camp. Petra opened for Servant on tour in late 1981 and early 1982 just as Petra's breakthrough album, Never Say Die was being released.
The band reunited to perform a one-off concert at Cornerstone Festival in July 2011.
In November 2013, Servant was awarded with the Lifetime Achievement Award from GMA Canada during ceremonies held during the 35th Annual Covenant Awards. On hand to receive the award were band members: Sandie Brock, Owen Brock, Bob Hardy, Rob Martens, Matt Spransy and Eric Odell.
In software engineering, the servant pattern defines an object used to offer some functionality to a group of classes without defining that functionality in each of them. A Servant is a class whose instance (or even just class) provides methods that take care of a desired service, while objects for which (or with whom) the servant does something, are taken as parameters.
A servant is a person working within an employer's household.
Servant or servants may refer to:
- Servant, Puy-de-Dôme, France
- Servant (band), a Canadian Christian rock group
- Servant (CORBA), a standard in cross-platform software
- Servant (design pattern), a software design pattern
- Servants (TV series), a costume drama by Tim Whitby
- The Servant (1963 film), a British drama
- The Servant (1989 film), a Soviet drama
- The Servant (2010 film), a South Korean film
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The Servant (band), an alternative rock band based in London, England
- The Servant (album), a 2004 album by The Servant
- The Servants, an indie pop band formed in Hayes, Middlesex, England
- A 1948 novel by Robin Maugham
Usage examples of "servant".
Constantine, to whose sons they had engaged their allegiance by an oath of fidelity, which the ingratitude of his most favored servants had tempted them to violate.
The servants were waiting at the crossroads, and she watched until the assessor had joined them.
Without imparting the secret to any one, she instantly conducted Athanasius into her most secret chamber, and watched over his safety with the tenderness of a friend and the assiduity of a servant.
Servants now came from the carriages, their arms laden, and the king himself presented every female artiste with a huge bouquet of hothouse carnations and a fine, fringed silk shawl embroidered with a crown.
Such, however, as he could make out were richly attired in doublets of silk and satin, while their rich velvet mantles, plumed and jewelled caps, and long rapiers, were carried by their servants.
Christ is simply greatest, Lord, Ruler, whereas to be subject or servant or less is to be attributed to Him with the qualification, in His human nature.
Since the servant balked at tripping the latch, Lirenda was left the irrevocable choice of whether to proceed or turn back.
My father ordered one of the servants to stop a passing bearer and find out where the Barca mansion was, and what their colors were.
The servant folded the rose barracan and put it away with gestures which seemed to indicate that such a flowing garment and its matching veil would not be needed within the harem.
Both Grace Bartram and Doctor Felton Shores watched as the servant opened the front door to admit a tall, dignified man, whose white hair formed a conspicuous mop as he removed his hat.
Peter, whose feet were washed that night, never forgot that night, and his warm heart always warmed to a servant when he saw her with her bason and her towels, till he gave her half a chapter to herself in his splendid First Epistle.
Amaranthe, little Cecile Renault--a mere child not sixteen years of age--also men like Michonis and Roussell, faithful servants of de Batz, the Baron de Lezardiere, and the Comte de St.
Within the space of minutes, she glimpsed beggars, peasant labourers, tradesmen and shopkeepers, market women and grisettes, students, liveried servants and footmen, assorted soberly clad bourgeois, sailors, uniformed gendarmes, Royal Guardsmen and shabbily bedizened females who could only have been prostitutes, mingling freely in the streets.
No, Bedlam, I think these are his unliving servants, as horrible in their own way as those things moving south.
Then he calmed himself, and, ringing a bell, told the servant to tell Lady Bellamy that he had walked on home.