Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A man employed as a servant to wait at table, attend the door, and run various errands, as in a palace.
- n. Archaic A foot soldier; an infantryman.
- n. Archaic One who travels on foot; a pedestrian.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A soldier who marches and fights on foot.
- n. A walker; a pedestrian.
- n. Formerly, a runner in attendance upon a person of rank; later, a servant who ran before his master's carriage for the purpose of rendering assistance on bad roads or in crossing streams, but mainly as a mark of the consequence of the traveler: distinctively called a running footman. He was usually dressed in a light black cap, a jockey-coat, and white linen trousers, and carried a pole six or seven feet long.
- n. In later and present use, a male servant whose duty it is to attend the door, the carriage, the table, etc.; a man in waiting.
- n. A stand of brass or other metal placed in front of a fire to hold anything which is to be kept hot.
- n. In entomology, one of certain bombycid moths; a lithosiid.
Wiktionary
- n. A soldier who marches and fights on foot; a foot soldier.
- n. A man in waiting; a male servant whose duties are to attend the door, the carriage, the table, etc.
- n. Formerly, a servant who ran in front of his master's carriage; a runner.
- n. A metallic stand with four feet, for keeping anything warm before a fire.
- n. zoology A moth of the family Lithosidae; -- so called from its livery-like colors.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A soldier who marches and fights on foot; a foot soldier.
- n. A man in waiting; a male servant whose duties are to attend the door, the carriage, the table, etc.
- n. Formerly, a servant who ran in front of his master's carriage; a runner.
- n. A metallic stand with four feet, for keeping anything warm before a fire.
- n. (Zoöl.) A moth of the family
Lithosidæ ; -- so called from its livery-like colors.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a man employed as a servant in a large establishment (as a palace) to run errands and do chores
Examples
“We have used the English term footman to indicate what is usually called a waiter in this country.”
“The word footman does not refer to that class of servants who are badged and dressed in livery to gratify the pride of their masters, nor to that description of foot-soldiers or infantry, whose business is designated by the blood-stained colour of their clothes.”
“abundance of art, to be sure she has; for I'll answer for it, this intrigue with a footman is not the first by many; but, poor woman, her charms are in their wane now, so the man is a substitute for the master.”
“‘All these things put together, excited their curiosity; and they engaged a peery servant, as they called a footman who was drinking with Kit. the hostler, at the tap-house, to watch all her motions.”
“Dolokhov put away the money, called a footman whom he ordered to bring something for them to eat and drink before the journey, and went into the room where Khvostikov and Makarin were sitting.”
“He carried a riding crop-a leather-wrapped handle on a sharp, hooked piece of steel that might have been called a footman's pick back in Argive.”
“If they were the famed dragonlances-and they certainly looked it-they were the type known as the footman's lance, shorter and lighter than the mounted lances that were fixed on the dragon saddles.”
“Will your majesty permit me to call the footman, and ask him to hurry up the postilion?" said Madame von Berg, leaning out of the window.”
“She took us down another stairway into a vast hall filled with paintings and statuary, where a man in a dark blue suit and silver braid (I suppose that's what you'd call a footman in livery), stood stiffly as the statues around him.”
The Camp Fire Girls Go Motoring Or, Along the Road That Leads the Way
“That the household was once more without a footman was a hard fact.”
Lists
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Interesting words
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Unneutered
These politically incorrect words for people contain the element 'man', 'son', or 'boy'.
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Man
Everything that contains a man in it
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Soldiers and Sailors
Types and nicknames.
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use•ful
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At Your Service
Servants who are traditionally male. Inspired by hernesheir's maids list (as well as Downton Abbey)
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Archaic (or sounds that way)
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