Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An inferior or subordinate servant.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An inferior servant.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A lower-ranking
servant .
Etymologies
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under- + servant
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Examples
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I like novels that give me a chance to escape from the drudgery of real life, so I'm unlikely to buy a story that, for example, focusses on the gritty reality of being an underservant, or a peasant, or a foot soldier and so on.
To Buy or Not to Buy Julianne Douglas 2009
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So he bribed this fellow Tarnod, whom I had the pleasure of discarnating, and who was an underservant here at the hunting lodge.
Last Enemy H. Beam Piper 1934
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