butler
Syllables: but·lerUK/ˈbʌt.lə(ɹ)//ˈbʌt.lɚ/
butler noun: a manservant having charge of wines and liquors.
Noun
butler (plural butlers)
- A manservant having charge of wines and liquors.
- The chief male servant of a household who has charge of other employees, receives guests, directs the serving of meals, and performs various personal services.
- “One marble hall, with staircase complete, one butler and three flunkeys to receive a retired sojer who dares to ring the bell. D'you know, old boy, I gave my bowler to the butler, whangee to one flunkey, gloves to another, and there was the fourth poor blighter looking like an orphan at a Mothers'...1929, Baldwyn Dyke Acland, chapter 2, in Filibuster
- A valet, a male personal attendant.
Verb
butler (third-person singular simple present butlers, present participle butlering, simple past and past participle butlered)
- To buttle, to dispense wines or liquors; to take the place of a butler.
Proper noun capitalized: Butler
Butler (countable and uncountable, plural Butlers)
- An English and Irish surname from Middle English [in turn originating as an occupation], for someone who was a butler or wine servant.
- An Anglicized form of the French Boutilier, Boutillier, Bouthillier surname from French of similar derivation.
- A male given name.
- A town, the county seat of Choctaw County, Alabama.
- A populated place in Mohave County, Arizona.
- A ghost town in Fresno County, California.
- A small city, the county seat of Taylor County, Georgia.
- A small village in Montgomery County, Illinois.
- A small city in DeKalb County, Indiana.
- A home rule city in Pendleton County, Kentucky.
- An unincorporated community in Baltimore County, Maryland.
- A city, the county seat of Bates County, Missouri.
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- A borough of Morris County, New Jersey.
- A town in Wayne County, New York.
- A village in Richland County, Ohio.
- A town in Custer County, Oklahoma.
- A census-designated place in Delaware County, Oklahoma.
- A city, the county seat of Butler County, Pennsylvania.
- A tiny town in Day County, South Dakota.
- An unincorporated community in Johnson County, Tennessee.
- An unincorporated community in Freestone County, Texas.
- An unincorporated community in Bastrop County, Texas.
- A small town in Clark County, Wisconsin.
- A village in Waukesha County, Wisconsin.
- A number of townships in the United States, listed under Butler Township.
- A location in Canada
- An unincorporated community in Manitoba, Canada.
- A locality in South Australia.
- An outer suburb of Perth, Western Australia.
- Ellipsis of Butler County.
- Ellipsis of Butler River.
butler meaning in Hindi, Marathi, Urdu and Bengali
butler in Hindi
- manservant having charge of wines and liquors
- ख़ानसामा xānsāmā, ख़ानसामाँ xānsāmā̃
butler in Marathi
- बटलर, बटलरकडे
butler in Urdu
- manservant having charge of wines and liquors
- خانسامان xānsāmān
butler in Bengali
- বাটলার
More languagesFewer languages
- butler in Telugu
- బట్లర్, బట్లర్కు
- butler in Malayalam
- ബട്ട്ലർ, ബട്ലർ, ബട്ട്ലറിലേക്ക്
- butler in Kannada
- ಬಟ್ಲರ್
- butler in Odia
- ବଟଲର
- butler in Nepali
- बटलर, बटलरलाई
- butler in Arabic
- كَبِير خَدَم kabīr ḵadam, قَهْرَمَان qahramān
- butler in Indonesian
- pelayan
- butler in Persian
- پیشخدمت piš-xedmat
- butler in Vietnamese
- quản gia
Examples of butler in a sentence
- There are three servants in the household, the butler and two maids.
- He arrived at the deduction that the butler didn't do it.
- The butler was nowhere to be found, so I saw myself out.
Synonyms of butler
Forms of butler
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | butlers |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | butlers |
| present participle | butlering |
| past participle | butlered |
| past | butlered |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Butlers |
Origin of butler
From Middle English butler, butlere, boteler, botelere, from Old French buttiler, butiller, boteillier (“officer in charge of wine”), from Medieval Latin botellārius, equivalent to bottle + -er. Piecewise doublet of bottler.
* (English surname): From Middle English Butler. * (Anglicized surname): From French Boutilier, Boutillier, Bouthillier. * (placename): From the surname
Words formed from butler
- archbutler
- butlerage
- butler café
- butler cafe
- butlerdom
- Butler English
- butleress
- butlerless
- butler lie
- butlerlike
- butlerly
- butlership
- butler steak
- buttle
- silent butler
- underbutler
- what the butler saw
- Burnside-Butler syndrome
- Butler County
- Butlerian
- butlerin
- Butler Mons
- Butler River
- Butskellism
- Lake Butler
- Mount Butler
Phrases with butler
Words that rhyme with butler
Questions about butler
- What does butler mean?
- Butler means a manservant having charge of wines and liquors.
- What is butler in Hindi?
- Butler in Hindi is ख़ानसामा (xānsāmā), ख़ानसामाँ (xānsāmā̃). See Butler meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is butler?
- Butler can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce butler?
- Butler is pronounced /ˈbʌt.lə(ɹ)/ (UK).
- What is the plural of butler?
- The plural of butler is butlers.
Words near butler in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: butler (page history and authors); Butler (page history and authors); butler (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); butler (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); butler (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); butler (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); butler (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); butler (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); butler (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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