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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. An employee or assistant who serves in a wide range of capacities.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. One who does everything; specifically, one who is called upon or employed to do all kinds of work for another.

Wiktionary

  1. n. dated A person having many diverse activities or responsibilities.
  2. n. dated A general servant.
  3. n. A jack of all trades.
  4. n. An individual employed to do all sorts of duties.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A person employed to do all kinds of work or business; a person with many different responsibilities.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a servant employed to do a variety of jobs

Etymologies

  1. From New Latin,  ("do everything"), from Latin fac, present singular imperative of faciō ("do, make") + tōtum ("everything"); attested in English from 1566. (Wiktionary)
  2. Medieval Latin factōtum : Latin fac, imperative of facere, to do; see dhē- in Indo-European roots + Latin tōtum, everything, from neuter of tōtus, all; see teutā- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • kenspeckle From the pamphlet Groatsworth of Wit: Shakespeare is "an absolute Johannes fac totum, who is in his owne conceit the onely Shake-scene in a countrey." Some elaboration here. Dec 9, 2006

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