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English noun: servant | |||
| 1. | servant (person) a person working in the service of another (especially in the household) | ||
| Synonyms | retainer | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | worker | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | body servant, cabin boy, domestic, domestic help, factotum, familiar, flunkey, flunky, house servant, lackey, major-domo, manservant, menial, scullion, seneschal, servant girl, serving girl | ||
| 2. | servant (state) in a subordinate position | ||
| Samples | Theology should be the handmaiden of ethics. The state cannot be a servant of the church. | ||
| Synonyms | handmaid, handmaiden | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | subordinateness, subsidiarity | ||
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