Advanced Vocabulary - Servants

Servants

amah noun

a woman who is a servant or whose job is to look after her employer’s children in southern and eastern Asia.

batman noun

British an officer’s servant in the British armed forces.

butler noun

the most important male servant in a rich person’s house, whose job is to organize the other servants, to welcome guests, to pour wine at meals etc.

cabin boy noun

a boy who worked on a ship as a servant in the past.

char noun

British old-fashioned a charwoman.

domestic service noun

the work of being a servant in someone’s house, especially in the past.

footman noun

a male servant, especially in the past, who wore a uniform and opened doors for people.

girl noun

old-fashioned a young woman who works as a servant or in a shop, office etc.

handmaiden noun

old-fashioned a woman who is someone’s servant.

help noun

a person or people that someone pays to work for them in their house.

houseboy noun

mainly American old-fashioned a boy or man who works as a servant in someone’s house. Many people now consider this word to be offensive..

housemaid noun

old-fashioned a woman servant whose job is to keep someone’s house clean and tidy.

Jeeves noun

British informal a man who is a personal servant for another man.

khansama noun

Indian English a male servant who cooks and often is also responsible for taking care of the house and organizing other servants.

maidservant noun

an old word meaning ‘a woman employed as a servant’.

man noun

old-fashioned a servant.

manservant noun

an old word meaning ‘a man who is a servant, especially to another man’.

master noun

old-fashioned a man who has control over servants or other people who work for him.

mistress noun

old-fashioned a woman who is in charge of a house and servants.

page noun

a boy whose job was to be the servant of someone of a high social class in the past.

parlourmaid noun

a woman servant in a large house in the past whose job included serving meals.

retainer noun

old-fashioned a servant, especially one who has worked for someone from a high social class for a long time.

serf noun

in the past, someone who lived and worked on land belonging to another person and who could not leave without that person’s permission.

serfdom noun

the condition of being a serf.

servant noun

someone whose job is to cook, clean, or do other work in someone else’s home.

servitor noun

an old word meaning a ‘servant’.

skivvy noun

British informal a servant This word is now used mainly for saying that someone is treated as if they were a servant.

valet noun

a man whose job is to look after another man’s clothes and cook his meals.

wench noun

an old word for a ‘young woman’, often a servant.

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