SERVANT GIRL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does servant girl mean? 

• SERVANT GIRL (noun)
  The noun SERVANT GIRL has 1 sense:

1. a girl who is a servant

  Familiarity information: SERVANT GIRL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SERVANT GIRL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A girl who is a servant

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

servant girl; serving girl

Hypernyms ("servant girl" is a kind of...):

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

 Context examples 

Halfway down, Lestrade stopped and tapped at a door, which was opened by a small servant girl.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

How do I know that you have been getting yourself very wet lately, and that you have a most clumsy and careless servant girl?

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Now,” said the milkman to a very youthful servant girl.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The flights are very long in this tall house, and as I stood waiting at the head of the third one for a little servant girl to lumber up, I saw a gentleman come along behind her, take the heavy hod of coal out of her hand, carry it all the way up, put it down at a door near by, and walk away, saying, with a kind nod and a foreign accent, It goes better so.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)