servitor
IPA: sˈɝvʌtɝ
noun
- One who performs the duties of a servant.
- One who serves in an army; a soldier.
- (historical) An undergraduate who performed menial duties in exchange for financial support from his college, particularly at Oxford University.
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Examples of "servitor" in Sentences
- Poor man! it was very unfair, for Mr.C. H--- had told me during our ride that his servitor was a
- Conan dismounted and the page called a servitor, who came running to receive the stallion's rein.
- If it is so, then it is only right that his eyes should be opened to the kind of servitor he is harbouring.
- The ubiquitous Nerio arrived, following a boy and a smaller girl, almost as though the servitor were a rear guard.
- Now it is likely that you have done this with a swagger and have called your servitor "old top" or other playful name.
- The actors find that out; he is admitted within the house as a "servitor" -- a call-boy, if you like; an apprentice, if you please.
- Where the Gloss: "Every one leaves a little portion in the dish, and gives it to those that serve; which is called the servitor's part."
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