MANSERVANT (menservants)

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: menservants   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does manservant mean? 

• MANSERVANT (noun)
  The noun MANSERVANT has 1 sense:

1. a man servant

  Familiarity information: MANSERVANT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MANSERVANT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A man servant

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("manservant" is a kind of...):

retainer; servant (a person working in the service of another (especially in the household))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "manservant"):

butler; pantryman (a manservant (usually the head servant of a household) who has charge of wines and the table)

footman (a man employed as a servant in a large establishment (as a palace) to run errands and do chores)

gentleman; gentleman's gentleman; man; valet; valet de chambre (a manservant who acts as a personal attendant to his employer)

 Context examples 

There is also one confidential manservant.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I was handed over to the manservant, a melancholy, swarthy individual, who led the way, my bag in his hand, to my bedroom.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)