servitor

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Scrabble points
11
Words With Friends
12
Letters
8
Pronunciation
/ˈsɜɹ.vɪ.təɹ/
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/ˈsɜɹ.vɪ.təɹ/ · /ˈsɜɹ.vɪ.tɔɹ/

Definition of servitor

3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. One who performs the duties of a servant.
    “The button-covered servitor had no doubt but that his sovereign's answer would be in reply, "Then he may go;" but he was mistaken, for Lady Anne had discovered that she looked well in her beautiful lace nightcaps, as most people do when their flesh has fallen away, and they are verging to the lantern jaw;...”
    “1884, W.S. Gilbert, Princess Ida You'll find no sizars here, or servitors / or other cruel distinctions meant to draw / a line 'twixt rich and poor”
    “Several days passed by, and to all appearance we had quite forgotten our poor old servitor, – so heartless in remembrance is weak humanity to its nearest and dearest, – when, in course of time, it got to be New Year's eve, and we were sitting in our study, awaiting the cook's preparations for dinner, when suddenly we heard a noise as of much tramping.”
    “He heard Rogers' voice raised in the reception room; he stepped to the doorway and saw his servitor arguing with an elderly and trampish man who had got in somehow.”
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noun

  1. One who performs the duties of a servant.
    “The button-covered servitor had no doubt but that his sovereign's answer would be in reply, "Then he may go;" but he was mistaken, for Lady Anne had discovered that she looked well in her beautiful lace nightcaps, as most people do when their flesh has fallen away, and they are verging to the lantern jaw;...”
    “1884, W.S. Gilbert, Princess Ida You'll find no sizars here, or servitors / or other cruel distinctions meant to draw / a line 'twixt rich and poor”
    “Several days passed by, and to all appearance we had quite forgotten our poor old servitor, – so heartless in remembrance is weak humanity to its nearest and dearest, – when, in course of time, it got to be New Year's eve, and we were sitting in our study, awaiting the cook's preparations for dinner, when suddenly we heard a noise as of much tramping.”
    “He heard Rogers' voice raised in the reception room; he stepped to the doorway and saw his servitor arguing with an elderly and trampish man who had got in somehow.”
  2. One who serves in an army; a soldier.
  3. (historical)An undergraduate who performed menial duties in exchange for financial support from his college, particularly at Oxford University.

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Etymology

From Middle English servitour, borrowed from Latin servītor, from servīre (“to serve”).

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