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servantage

servantage noun: the rank or position of servant.

Noun

servantage (uncountable)

  1. The rank or position of servant.
    • Through it all has moved a mumbling, bent old man who has been the loving guardian of the household for two generations, one of those rare and ancient servants who, by sheer servility, have lifted themselves out of servantage[…]1922, Kenneth Macgowan, Robert Edmond Jones, Continental stagecraft
  2. Servants, generally or collectively.
    • The kitchen staff, man and boy, and the entire servantage in all its forms and both its sexes, were to be ready at half-past eleven to troop down to Gormenghast Lake, where the trees would be in readiness for them.1946, Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, →OCLC

Origin of servantage

From servant + -age.

Questions about servantage

What does servantage mean?
Servantage means the rank or position of servant.
What part of speech is servantage?
Servantage is a noun.

Words near servantage in the dictionary

  1. servaline genet
  2. servaline genets
  3. servals
  4. servant
  5. servant out of livery
  6. servantage
  7. servantcy
  8. servantdom
  9. servanted
  10. servantess
  11. servantesses

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