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servitor

/ˈsɜɹ.vɪ.təɹ/

servitor noun: one who performs the duties of a servant.

Noun

servitor (plural servitors)

  1. One who performs the duties of a servant.
    • The button-covered servitor had no doubt but that his sovereign's answer would be in reply, "Then he may go;" but he was mistaken, for Lady Anne had discovered that she looked well in her beautiful lace nightcaps, as most people do when their flesh has fallen away, and they are verging to the...1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter LVI, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 89
    • You'll find no sizars here, or servitors / or other cruel distinctions meant to draw / a line 'twixt rich and poor1884, W.S. Gilbert, Princess Ida
  2. One who serves in an army; a soldier.
  3. (historical) An undergraduate who performed menial duties in exchange for financial support from his college, particularly at Oxford University.

servitor meaning in Tamil

servitor in Tamil

ஊழியன்

Forms of servitor

pluralservitors

Origin of servitor

From Middle English servitour, borrowed from Latin servītor, from servīre (“to serve”).

Words formed from servitor

Questions about servitor

What does servitor mean?
Servitor means one who performs the duties of a servant.
What is servitor in Tamil?
Servitor in Tamil is ஊழியன். See Servitor meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is servitor?
Servitor is a noun.
How do you pronounce servitor?
Servitor is pronounced /ˈsɜɹ.vɪ.təɹ/.
What is the plural of servitor?
The plural of servitor is servitors.

Words near servitor in the dictionary

  1. Servisses
  2. Servite
  3. Servites
  4. servitisation
  5. servitization
  6. servitor
  7. servitorial
  8. servitors
  9. servitorship
  10. servitorships
  11. servitress

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Adapted from Wiktionary: servitor (page history and authors); servitor (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). 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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