| 单词 | house servant |
| 释义 | house servant (once / 19537 pages) n WORD FAMILY house servant: house servants USAGE EXAMPLESCollege presidents, many of whom were also slave owners, used slaves as personal attendants and as house servants to maintain the president’s mansion. Time(Sep 15, 2016) She was 22 and quickly found herself chafing at her new confines — public appearances, heavy security, a staff of house servants. Washington Post(Oct 22, 2015) Sometimes the house servants were the betrayers, they were closest to the masters, known to be tattletales, certain to be rewarded because of their talebearing. Ann Petry, Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Un...(1955) n a servant who is paid to perform menial tasks around the household Syn|Hypo|Hyper domestic, domestic help ayah (in India) a native nursemaid who looks after children home helpa person hired to help in another's home (especially one employed by a local authority to help the infirm with domestic work) housekeepera servant who is employed to perform domestic task in a household amah, housemaid, maid, maidservanta female domestic skivvy, slaveya female domestic servant who does all kinds of menial work chambermaid, fille de chambrea maid who is employed to clean and care for bedrooms (now primarily in hotels) handmaid, handmaidena personal maid or female attendant lady's maida maid who is a lady's personal attendant parlormaid, parlourmaida maid in a private home whose duties are to care for the parlor and the table and to answer the door retainer, servant a person working in the service of another (especially in the household) |
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