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FACTOTUM
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Dictionary entry overview: What does factotum mean?
• FACTOTUM (noun)
The noun FACTOTUM has 1 sense:
1. a servant employed to do a variety of jobs
Familiarity information: FACTOTUM used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A servant employed to do a variety of jobs
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("factotum" is a kind of...):
retainer; servant (a person working in the service of another (especially in the household))
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