Servant Noun Person C Obsolete Public Ser·Vant Servir

ser·vant
\\ˈsər-vənt\\ noun: one that serves others
    a public servant
especially : one that performs duties about the person or home of a master or personal employer
• ser·vant·hood \\-ˌhu̇d\\ noun
• ser·vant·less adjective

servant
  early 13c., from O.Fr., noun use of servant "serving, waiting," prp. of servir "to attend, wait upon" (see serve). Meaning "professed lover, one devoted to the service of a lady" is from mid-14c. In N.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 L. servus, Gk. doulos "slave"). Public servant is attested from 1670s.

☞ servant
ser·vant / 5sE:vEnt; NAmE 5sE:rv- / noun1. a person who works in another person's house, and cooks, cleans, etc. for them
   仆人；用人:
   a domestic servant
   家仆
   They treat their mother like a servant.
   他们像对待佣人一样对待自己的母亲。
2. a person who works for a company or an organization
   (公司或机构的)雇员,职员:
   a public servant
   公务员
⇨ see also

civil servant

3. a person or thing that is controlled by sth
   奴仆般受制(或献身)于…的人；服务于…的事物:
   He was willing to make himself a servant of his art.
   他甘愿献身于自己的艺术。
 IDIOMS 
⇨ see

obedient

servant noun

ser·vant
I. \ˈsərvənt, ˈsə̄v-, ˈsəiv-, dial ˈsärv- or ˈsȧv-\ noun
(-s)
Etymology: Middle English, from Old French, from present participle of servir to serve — more at
1. : a person bound to do the bidding of a master or superior : one that must work for another and obey him: as
 a. : one that performs duties about the person or home of a master or employer : a personal or domestic attendant
 b. : a person in the employ and subject to the direction of an individual or company : a wage-earning employee
 c. : something (as an animal, tool, or machine) that serves the purposes of another : an object or device used as an instrument
  < organization and machinery, which should be our servants and not our masters, demand we should adapt ourselves to them — J.B.Priestley >
  < electricity, this marvelous servant that turns factory wheels — Leonard Engel >
  < make atomic energy a servant of man >
2. : an adherent or agent of a god or of the Deity
3. obsolete : an avowed suitor for a woman's affections : one that pays court to her or dances attendance on her; also :
4. servants plural, obsolete : a troupe of actors under the patronage of an English king or nobleman
 < his majesty's servants >
5. : a government official considered as the servant of his sovereign or of the public
 < a servant of her majesty the queen >
: — compare
6. :
7. : a member of Jehovah's Witnesses who functions in capacities like those of a clergyman
II. transitive verb
(-ed/-ing/-s)
1. obsolete : to make subject :
2. obsolete : to furnish with a servant
3. obsolete : to act as servant — used in the phrase to servant it

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