Servant
noun
A person who performs duties for others, specially in a house or for another person.
The house has a live-in servant to clean and cook
Often appears as...
- public servant
- domestic servant
noun
A person who is devoted to another or to a group, cause, etc.
He has been a faithful servant to the cause of justice his whole life
Often appears as...
- servant of god
- servant of the people
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Approving
noun
In law, servant refers to an employee.
In the eyes of the law, she was considered as a servant when she signed the contract
Often appears as...
- lawful servant
- servant at will
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Formal
noun
In Bible, a person who willingly submits to God.
Daniel was a humble servant of God
Often appears as...
- god's servant
- faithful servant
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Formal
Religious
noun
A person who performs duties for others, specially in a house or for another person.
The house has a live-in servant to clean and cook
Often appears as...
- public servant
- domestic servant
noun
A person who is devoted to another or to a group, cause, etc.
He has been a faithful servant to the cause of justice his whole life
Often appears as...
- servant of god
- servant of the people
Usage tips
Approving
noun
In law, servant refers to an employee.
In the eyes of the law, she was considered as a servant when she signed the contract
Often appears as...
- lawful servant
- servant at will
Usage tips
Formal
noun
In Bible, a person who willingly submits to God.
Daniel was a humble servant of God
Often appears as...
- god's servant
- faithful servant
Usage tips
Formal
Religious
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Pro Tip 1/3Household Role
Commonly, 'servant' implies a paid role offering daily help in someone's home.
The family hired a servant to take care of household chores.
Pro Tip 2/3Outdated Term
'Servant' can sound old-fashioned; terms like 'helper' or 'aide' are more modern alternatives.
My grandparents used to call their housekeeper a servant.
Pro Tip 3/3Social Implications
Using 'servant' can imply a social hierarchy, often seen as less respectful today.
In historical novels, characters often have servants.
Pro Tip 1/3Household Role
Commonly, 'servant' implies a paid role offering daily help in someone's home.
The family hired a servant to take care of household chores.
Pro Tip 2/3Outdated Term
'Servant' can sound old-fashioned; terms like 'helper' or 'aide' are more modern alternatives.
My grandparents used to call their housekeeper a servant.
Pro Tip 3/3Social Implications
Using 'servant' can imply a social hierarchy, often seen as less respectful today.
In historical novels, characters often have servants.
Pro Tip 1/3Household Role
Commonly, 'servant' implies a paid role offering daily help in someone's home.
The family hired a servant to take care of household chores.
Pro Tip 2/3Outdated Term
'Servant' can sound old-fashioned; terms like 'helper' or 'aide' are more modern alternatives.
My grandparents used to call their housekeeper a servant.
Pro Tip 3/3Social Implications
Using 'servant' can imply a social hierarchy, often seen as less respectful today.
In historical novels, characters often have servants.
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Lots of countries are building lots more affordable housing and it's actually helping to change some of the local tensions. So these answers emerge not from pie-in-the-sky thinking, but from the real experience of real countries. And there are real policymakers and journalists and civil servants who have done these things.
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The Atlantic slave...
The crops grown in the new colonies, sugar cane, tobacco, and cotton, were labor intensive, and there were not enough settlers or indentured servants to cultivate all the new land. American Natives were enslaved, but many died from new diseases, while others effectively resisted.
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Pompeiian Sexuality PIPE...
Roman sexual mores for one thing it doesn't have a sense of privacy we think that privacy is the most important thing about sexual activity but here we have a bedroom servant right in the corner on the left-hand side looking out at us and attending to the couple
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How a geospatial nervous...
I grew up as a young kid in a nursery, my parents were servants, and they started a little nursery to help put me through school, that's the way I saw it. They were immigrants and they grew plants. They were attracted to landscaping,
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Mystery of the Romanovs...
had expanded his sphere of influence to include the courts of Europe in st. Petersburg the Tsar and his family lived in a breathtaking palace with a thousand rooms hundreds of servants attended their every whim and it seemed like a
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What will change Africa?...
evil but lately we've come to realize that it's real if they weren't doing that what other opportunity exists what are they going to do you go to university you become some civil servant well if your lot in life to survive on
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Reducing corruption...
who extort money from everyday hardworking citizens. But most civil servants are grossly underpaid and are leading desperate lives. And so for them, extortion or corruption is a good way to make a living.
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Ernesto Sirolli: Want to...
where you never initiate anything, you never motivate anybody, but you become a servant of the local passion, the servant of local people who have a dream to become a better person.
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Mysteries of vernacular:...
literally loaf maid, or, more figuratively, kneader of bread. As early as the ninth century, hlafdige was the name for a mistress of servants,
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Where on Earth Will...
Lots of countries are building lots more affordable housing and it's actually helping to change some of the local tensions. So these answers emerge not from pie-in-the-sky thinking, but from the real experience of real countries. And there are real policymakers and journalists and civil servants who have done these things.
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The Atlantic slave...
The crops grown in the new colonies, sugar cane, tobacco, and cotton, were labor intensive, and there were not enough settlers or indentured servants to cultivate all the new land. American Natives were enslaved, but many died from new diseases, while others effectively resisted.
Video examples
Pompeiian Sexuality PIPE...
Roman sexual mores for one thing it doesn't have a sense of privacy we think that privacy is the most important thing about sexual activity but here we have a bedroom servant right in the corner on the left-hand side looking out at us and attending to the couple
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Fossil fuel companies...
Decarbonizing your portfolio helps no one but your conscience. You must decarbonize your product. If you're a politician or a civil servant, you need to look at your favorite climate policy and How is it helping to decarbonize fossil fuels?
Video examples
How a geospatial nervous...
I grew up as a young kid in a nursery, my parents were servants, and they started a little nursery to help put me through school, that's the way I saw it. They were immigrants and they grew plants. They were attracted to landscaping,
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Mystery of the Romanovs...
had expanded his sphere of influence to include the courts of Europe in st. Petersburg the Tsar and his family lived in a breathtaking palace with a thousand rooms hundreds of servants attended their every whim and it seemed like a
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What will change Africa?...
evil but lately we've come to realize that it's real if they weren't doing that what other opportunity exists what are they going to do you go to university you become some civil servant well if your lot in life to survive on
Video examples
Reducing corruption...
who extort money from everyday hardworking citizens. But most civil servants are grossly underpaid and are leading desperate lives. And so for them, extortion or corruption is a good way to make a living.
Video examples
Ernesto Sirolli: Want to...
where you never initiate anything, you never motivate anybody, but you become a servant of the local passion, the servant of local people who have a dream to become a better person.
Video examples
Mysteries of vernacular:...
literally loaf maid, or, more figuratively, kneader of bread. As early as the ninth century, hlafdige was the name for a mistress of servants,
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Mahatma Gandhi
Indian Leader
Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.
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Joyce Meyer
American Author
I tell people, and it's the truth, I could sit in my garage for a week and it won't make me a car. And you can sit in church till your bottom is flat and that won't make you a servant of Christ.
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Woodrow Wilson
American President
The world is not looking for servants, there are plenty of these, but for masters, men who form their purposes and then carry them out, let the consequences be what they may.
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Jesus Christ
Leader
My kingdom is not of this world. If it were, my servants would fight to prevent my arrest by the Jews. But now my kingdom is from another place.
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Cesar Chavez
American Activist
Since the Church is to be servant to the poor, it is our fault if that wealth is not channeled to help the poor in our world.
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Aesop
Greek Author
It is with our passions as it is with fire and water, they are good servants, but bad masters.
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Hunter S. Thompson
American Journalist
Nixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning.
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Maria Montessori
Italian Educator
We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.
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Donald Rumsfeld
American Politician
Public servants are paid to serve the American people. Do it well.
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Billy Graham
American Clergyman
God's angels often protect his servants from potential enemies.
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Mahatma Gandhi
Indian Leader
Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.
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Joyce Meyer
American Author
I tell people, and it's the truth, I could sit in my garage for a week and it won't make me a car. And you can sit in church till your bottom is flat and that won't make you a servant of Christ.
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Woodrow Wilson
American President
The world is not looking for servants, there are plenty of these, but for masters, men who form their purposes and then carry them out, let the consequences be what they may.
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Jesus Christ
Leader
My kingdom is not of this world. If it were, my servants would fight to prevent my arrest by the Jews. But now my kingdom is from another place.
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Cesar Chavez
American Activist
Since the Church is to be servant to the poor, it is our fault if that wealth is not channeled to help the poor in our world.
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Aesop
Greek Author
It is with our passions as it is with fire and water, they are good servants, but bad masters.
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Hunter S. Thompson
American Journalist
Nixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning.
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Maria Montessori
Italian Educator
We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.
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Donald Rumsfeld
American Politician
Public servants are paid to serve the American people. Do it well.
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Billy Graham
American Clergyman
God's angels often protect his servants from potential enemies.
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