servant

The definition of a servant is someone who performs work or tasks for another person.

(noun)

Someone who acts as a maid or a butler is a servant.

See servant in Webster's New World College Dictionary

noun

Origin: ME < OFr < prp. of servir < L servire, to serve

See servant in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun

One who is privately employed to perform domestic services.
One who is publicly employed to perform services, as for a government.
One who expresses submission, recognizance, or debt to another: your obedient servant.

Origin:

Origin: Middle English

Origin: , from Old French

Origin: , from present participle of servir, to serve; see serve

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