servitor

One who performs the duties of a servant.

Noun

  1. One who performs the duties of a servant.
    • The button-covered servitor had no doubt but that his sovereign's answer would be in reply, "Then he may go;" but he was mistaken, for Lady Anne had discovered that she looked well in her beautiful lace nightcaps, as...
    • 1884, W.S. Gilbert, Princess Ida You'll find no sizars here, or servitors / or other cruel distinctions meant to draw / a line 'twixt rich and poor
    • Several days passed by, and to all appearance we had quite forgotten our poor old servitor, – so heartless in remembrance is weak humanity to its nearest and dearest, – when, in course of time, it got to be New Year's...
  2. One who serves in an army; a soldier.
  3. An undergraduate who performed menial duties in exchange for financial support from his college, particularly at Oxford University.

Origin

From Middle English servitour, borrowed from Latin servītor, from servīre (“to serve”).

Forms

servitors

Derived

servitorship servitress