: one that serves others
a public servant
especially
: one that performs duties for another as a personal or domestic attendant
servantless
adjective
Examples of servant in a Sentence
the wealthy family had servants to clean and cook for them
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That made kid gloves the perfect choice for a servant handling fine silverware, where even a fingerprint could spoil the dinner presentation.
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Scott Neuman, NPR, 4 Feb. 2026
Making the Fed the servant of the White House would hobble one of the few institutions capable of limiting the overreach of a power-mad president.
—Steve Chapman, Chicago Tribune, 4 Feb. 2026
Thank you for lifting your prayers with ours for our beloved mom, our dearest Nancy, a woman of deep conviction, a good and faithful servant.
—Jackie Strause, HollywoodReporter, 3 Feb. 2026
But Season Four takes viewers to lower-class settings like the bars where scullery maids and footmen relax, the markets where house staff shop, even the secret drawing rooms where servants eat their breakfast and discuss town gossip.
—Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 2 Feb. 2026
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Scott Neuman, NPR, 4 Feb. 2026
Making the Fed the servant of the White House would hobble one of the few institutions capable of limiting the overreach of a power-mad president.
—Steve Chapman, Chicago Tribune, 4 Feb. 2026
Thank you for lifting your prayers with ours for our beloved mom, our dearest Nancy, a woman of deep conviction, a good and faithful servant.
—Jackie Strause, HollywoodReporter, 3 Feb. 2026
But Season Four takes viewers to lower-class settings like the bars where scullery maids and footmen relax, the markets where house staff shop, even the secret drawing rooms where servants eat their breakfast and discuss town gossip.
—Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 2 Feb. 2026
See All Example Sentences for servant
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“Servant.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/servant. Accessed 14 Feb. 2026.
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servant
noun
ser·vant
ˈsər-vənt 
: one that serves others
especially
: a person hired to perform household or personal services
Etymology
Middle English servant "servant," from early French servant (same meaning), from a form of servir "to serve," from Latin servire "to be a slave, serve," from servus "slave, servant" — related to serf
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