servant (redirected from loaned servant)

ser·vant  (sûrvnt)

n.

1. One who is privately employed to perform domestic services.

2. One who is publicly employed to perform services, as for a government.

3. One who expresses submission, recognizance, or debt to another: your obedient servant.

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[Middle English, from Old French, from present participle of servir, to serve; see serve.]

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servant

Noun

1. a person employed to do household work for another person

2. a person or thing that is useful or provides a service: a distinguished servant of this country [Old French: serving]

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	servant - a person working in the service of another (especially in the household) retainer worker - a person who works at a specific occupation; "he is a good worker" body servant - a valet or personal maid cabin boy - a young man acting as a servant on a ship domestic, domestic help, house servant - a servant who is paid to perform menial tasks around the household factotum - a servant employed to do a variety of jobs familiar - a person attached to the household of a high official (as a pope or bishop) who renders service in return for support flunkey, flunky, lackey - a male servant (especially a footman) major-domo, seneschal - the chief steward or butler of a great household manservant - a man servant menial - a domestic servant scullion - a kitchen servant employed to do menial tasks (especially washing) servant girl, serving girl - a girl who is a servant
	2.	servant - in a subordinate position; "theology should be the handmaiden of ethics"; "the state cannot be a servant of the church" handmaid, handmaiden subordinateness, subsidiarity - secondary importance

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servant

noun attendant, domestic, slave, maid, help, helper, retainer, menial, drudge, lackey, vassal, skivvy chiefly Brit. servitor (archaic) varlet (archaic) liegeman

Translations

servant [ˈsəːvənt] n (gen) → servidor/a m/f (= house servant); criado/a

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servant [ˈsəːvənt] n → domestique m/f (fig); serviteur(servante)

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servant [ˈsəːvənt] n (lit, fig) → Diener(in) m(f);

(domestic) → Hausangestellte(r) f(m)

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servant [ˈsəːvənt] n → domestico/a

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servant

n servant [ˈsəːvənt]

1 a person who is hired to work for another, especially in helping to run a house. dienskneg خادِم прислужник sluha, služka husassistent; tjener der/die Diener(in) υπηρέτης criado, sirviente teenija پيشخدمت palvelija domestique מְשָרֵת नौकर, चाकर sluga inas, személyzet pelayan þjónn domestico 召使 하인, (집안 일을 하는) 고용인 tarnas kalps; kalpone pembantu rumah bediende tjener, hushjelp służący criado servitor прислуга sluha, slúžka služabnik sluga tjänare คนรับใช้ hizmetçi 傭人,僕人 слуга; прислуга نوکر người hầu 佣人,仆人

2 a person employed by the government, or in the administration of a country etc a public servant; civil servants. amptenaar مُسْتَخْدَم، مُوَظَّف مَدَني служител státní úředník, -ice tjenestemand der Beamte/die Beamtin (δημόσιος) υπάλληλος funcionario ametnik خادم virkamies employé/-ée (service public d'un); fonctionnaire עוֹבֵד צִיבּוּר सेवक, कर्मचारी službenik közalkalmazott, köztisztviselő pegawai negeri opinber starfsmaður dipendente 公務員 공무원, 관리 tarnautojas kalpotājs; ierēdnis; darbinieks pekerja ambtenaar tjeneste-/embetsmann urzędnik funcionário angajat; funcţionar служащий štátny úradník, -čka uslužbenec sluga tjänsteman ข้าราชการ memur 公務員 службовець ملازم bầy tôi trung thành 公务员