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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | reside; use |
| Synonyms: | be established, be in command, be in residence, cover, dwell, ensconce, establish, fill, hold, inhabit, involve, keep, live in, maintain, own, people, permeate, pervade, populate, possess, remain, sit, stay, take up, tenant, utilize |
| Antonyms: | not use |
| Main Entry: | servant |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who waits on another |
| Synonyms: | assistant, attendant, cleaning person, dependent, domestic, drudge, help, helper, hireling, live-in, menial, minion, retainer, serf, server, slave |
| Antonyms: | master |
| Main Entry: | maid |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | servant |
| Synonyms: | au pair, biddy, chambermaid, cleaning lady, cleaning woman, damsel, domestic, factotum, girl, handmaiden, help, hired girl, housemaid, live-in, maidservant, miss, nursemaid, woman |
| Notes: | made means produced by a manufacturing process, while a maid is a female servant or an unmarried girl |
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| Concept: | Servant. |
| Synonyms: |
-nouns
subject, liegeman; servant, retainer, follower, henchman, servitor, domestic, menial, help, lady help, employe, employee, attache; official., retinue, suite, cortege, staff, court., attendant, squire, usher, page, donzel, footboy; train bearer, cup bearer; waiter, lapster, butler, livery servant, lackey, footman, flunkey, valet, valet de chambre; equerry, groom; jockey, hostler, ostler, tiger, orderly, messenger, cad, gillie, herdsman, swineherd; barkeeper, bartender; bell boy, boots, boy, counterjumper; khansamah, khansaman; khitmutgar; yardman., bailiff, castellan, seneschal, chamberlain, major-domo, groom of the chambers., secretary; under secretary, assistant secretary; clerk; subsidiary; agent; subaltern; underling, understrapper; man., maid, maidservant; handmaid; confidente, lady's maid, abigail, soubrette; amah, biddy, nurse, bonne, ayah; nursemaid, nursery maid, house maid, parlor maid, waiting maid, chamber maid, kitchen maid, scullery maid; femme de chambre, femme fille; camarista; chef de cuisine, cordon bleu, cook, scullion, Cinderella; potwalloper; maid of all work, servant of all work; laundress, bedmaker; journeyman, charwoman (worker); bearer, chokra, gyp [Cambridge], hamal, scout [Oxford], cleaning woman, cleaning service., serf, vassal, slave, helot; bondsman, bondswoman; bondslave; ame damnee, odalisque, ryot, adscriptus gleboe; villian, villein; beadsman, bedesman; sizar; pensioner, pensionary; client; dependant, dependent; hanger on, satellite; parasite (servility); led captain; protege, ward, hireling, mercenary, puppet, creature., badge of slavery; bonds.
-verbs
serve; wait upon, wait on, attend upon, dance attendance upon, pin oneself upon; squire, tend, hang on the sleeve of; chore [U.S.].
-adjectives
in the train of; in one's pay, in one's employ; at one's call (obedient) [more]; in bonds.
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| Antonyms: | master |
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