servant

Roget category 746

5. Words relating to the voluntary powers
› 5.6. General intersocial volition
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#746. Servant

noun

subject, liegeman^† — servant, retainer, follower, henchman, servitor, domestic, menial, help, lady help, employe, attache — official.
retinue, suite, cortege, staff, court.
attendant, squire, usher, page, donzel^†, footboy^† — train bearer, cup bearer — waiter, lapster^†, butler, livery servant, lackey, footman, flunky, flunkey, valet, valet de chambre [Fr.] — equerry, groom — jockey, hostler, ostler^†, tiger, orderly, messenger, cad, gillie^†, herdsman, swineherd — barkeeper, bartender — bell boy, boots, boy, counterjumper^† — khansamah^†, khansaman^† — khitmutgar^† — yardman.
bailiff, castellan^†, seneschal, chamberlain, major-domo^†, groom of the chambers.
secretary — under secretary, assistant secretary — clerk — subsidiary — agent etc. 758 — subaltern — underling, understrapper — man.
maid, maidservant — handmaid — confidente [Fr.], lady's maid, abigail, soubrette — amah^†, biddy, nurse, bonne [Fr.], ayah^† — nursemaid, nursery maid, house maid, parlor maid, waiting maid, chamber maid, kitchen maid, scullery maid — femme de chambre [Fr.], femme fille [Fr.] — camarista^† — chef de cuisine, cordon bleu [Fr.], cook, scullion, Cinderella — potwalloper^† — maid of all work, servant of all work — laundress, bedmaker^† — journeyman, charwoman etc. (worker) 690 — bearer, chokra^†, gyp (Cambridge), hamal^†, scout (Oxford). serf, vassal, slave, negro, helot — bondsman, bondswoman^† — bondslave^† — ame damnee [Fr.], odalisque, ryot^†, adscriptus gleboe [Lat.] — villian^†, villein — beadsman^†, bedesman^† — sizar^† — pensioner, pensionary^† — client — dependant, dependent — hanger on, satellite — parasite etc. (servility) 886 — led captain — protege [Fr.], ward, hireling, mercenary, puppet, tool, creature.
badge of slavery — bonds etc. 752.

verb

serve — wait upon, attend upon, dance attendance upon, pin oneself upon — squire, tend, hang on the sleeve of — chore [U.S.].

adjective

in the train of — in one's pay, in one's employ — at one's call etc. (obedient) 743 — in bonds.

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