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menials

menials is the plural of menial.

Meaning of menial

Noun

menial (plural menials)

  1. A servant, especially a domestic servant.
    • “Nay, Dame Mary,” answered the Knight, “it is enough you desire such an attendant.—Yet I have never loved to nurse such useless menials—a lady's page—it may well suit the proud English dames to have a slender youth to bear their trains from bower to hall, fan them when they slumber, and touch the...1820, [Walter Scott], chapter 3, in The Abbot. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Company, and John...
  2. A person who has a subservient nature.

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Questions about menials

What is menials the plural of?
Menials is the plural of menial.

Words near menials in the dictionary

  1. menialize
  2. menialized
  3. menializes
  4. menializing
  5. menially
  6. menials
  7. menid
  8. menids
  9. Menifee
  10. Menifee County
  11. menigioencephalomyelitis

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