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{
"term": "servant",
"partOfSpeech": "noun",
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "b1",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "a person who works in another person’s house, and cooks, cleans, etc. for them",
"sensetop": "servant to somebodyservant of somebody",
"cefr": "b1",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "a domestic servant"
},
{
"text": "a faithful/devoted/trusted servant"
},
{
"text": "They treat their mother like a servant."
},
{
"text": "She was working as a servant to the Smith family.",
"contextForm": "servant to somebody"
},
{
"text": "one of the servants of the king of Persia",
"contextForm": "servant of somebody"
},
{
"text": "Servants scurried around him."
},
{
"text": "The duchess arrived, surrounded by her army of servants."
},
{
"text": "The relationship was one of master and servant."
},
{
"text": "They went up another set of stairs to the servants' quarters."
}
],
"topics": ["Jobs"],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["devoted", "faithful", "loyal"],
"verb + servant": ["employ", "have", "call"],
"servant + verb": ["serve somebody", "wait on somebody", "work"],
"servant + noun": ["boy", "girl"],
"preposition": ["servant to"],
"phrases": [
"an army of servants",
"a servant of the Crown",
"a servant of the people"
]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "a person who works for a company or an organization",
"sensetop": "servant (to/of something)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "Mr Bennet said his client was a loyal servant to the council."
}
],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["devoted", "faithful", "loyal"],
"verb + servant": ["employ", "have", "call"],
"servant + verb": ["serve somebody", "wait on somebody", "work"],
"servant + noun": ["boy", "girl"],
"preposition": ["servant to"],
"phrases": [
"an army of servants",
"a servant of the Crown",
"a servant of the people"
]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "a person or thing that is controlled by something",
"sensetop": "servant to/of something",
"examples": [
{
"text": "He was willing to make himself a servant of his art."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "used to end a formal letter",
"labels": "(old use)",
"examples": []
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈsɜːvənt/",
"audio": "se/servant/servant__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈsɜːrvənt/",
"audio": "se/servant/servant__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "Middle English: from Old French, literally ‘(person) serving’, present participle (used as a noun) of servir ‘to serve’."
}