Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun One that performs the duties of a servant to another; an attendant.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who serves or attends; a subordinate; a follower; an adherent.
  • noun Specifically
  • noun A male domestic servant; a menial.
  • noun (b ) One who serves in the army; a soldier.
  • noun Formerly, at Oxford University, an undergraduate who was partly supported by the college funds, who was distinguished by peculiar dress, and whose duty it was to wait at table on the fellows and gentlemen commoners. This class of scholars no longer exists, and practically has not existed for a century. The statement of Thackeray below is inexact, inasmuch as the Oxford servitors did not correspond to the Cambridge sizars, but to the subsizars.
  • noun (d ) One who professes duty or service: formerly used in phrases of civility.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who serves; a servant; an attendant; one who acts under another; a follower or adherent.
  • noun (Univ. of Oxford, Eng.) An undergraduate, partly supported by the college funds, whose duty it formerly was to wait at table. A servitor corresponded to a sizar in Cambridge and Dublin universities.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun one who performs the duties of a servant.
  • noun one who serves in an army; a soldier.
  • noun an undergraduate who performed menial duties in exchange for financial support from his college, particularly at Oxford University

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun someone who performs the duties of an attendant for someone else

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Middle English servitour, from Anglo-Norman, from Latin servītor, from servīre, to serve; see serve.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Middle English servitour, from Latin servītor, from Latin servīre, to serve

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Examples

  • The actors find that out; he is admitted within the house as a "servitor" -- a call-boy, if you like; an apprentice, if you please.

    Shakespeare, Bacon, and the Great Unknown Andrew Lang 1878

  • Conan dismounted and the page called a servitor, who came running to receive the stallion's rein.

    The Bloody Crown Of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2003

  • Conan dismounted and the page called a servitor, who came running to receive the stallion's rein.

    The Bloody Crown of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2003

  • The ubiquitous Nerio arrived, following a boy and a smaller girl, almost as though the servitor were a rear guard.

    The Soprano Sorceress Modesitt, L. E. 1997

  • Conan dismounted and the page called a servitor, who came running to receive the stallion's rein.

    The Conan Chronicles Howard, Robert E. 1989

  • Where the Gloss: "Every one leaves a little portion in the dish, and gives it to those that serve; which is called the servitor's part."

    From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

  • Conan dismounted and the page called a servitor, who came running to receive the stallion's rein.

    The Hour Of The Dragon Howard, Robert E. 1977

  • Now it is likely that you have done this with a swagger and have called your servitor "old top" or other playful name.

    Journeys to Bagdad 1906

  • Poor man! it was very unfair, for Mr.C. H--- had told me during our ride that his servitor was a

    Station Amusements 1871

  • If it is so, then it is only right that his eyes should be opened to the kind of servitor he is harbouring.

    The Hermit of Eyton Forest Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1987

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