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servants

 
Noun servant has 2 senses
  1. servant, retainer - a person working in the service of another (especially in the household)
    --1 is a kind of worker
    --1 has particulars:
     body servant; cabin boy; domestic, domestic help, house servant; factotum; familiar; lackey, flunky, flunkey; major-domo, seneschal; manservant; menial, dogsbody; scullion; servant girl, serving girl
    Derived form: verb serve10
  2. handmaid, handmaiden, servant - in a subordinate position; "theology should be the handmaiden of ethics"; "the state cannot be a servant of the church"
    --2 is a kind of subordinateness, subsidiarity
    Derived form: verb serve8
serva serval servant-less servant servant girl servant quarters servant s entrance servante servants servants quarters servation servaval servcie serve serve a subpoena serve jail term serve up

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