Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. One that performs the duties of a servant to another; an attendant.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who serves or attends; a subordinate; a follower; an adherent.
- n. Specifically.
- n. A male domestic servant; a menial.
- n. (b ) One who serves in the army; a soldier.
- n. Formerly, at Oxford University, an undergraduate who was partly supported by the college funds, who was distinguished by peculiar dress, and whose duty it was to wait at table on the fellows and gentlemen commoners. This class of scholars no longer exists, and practically has not existed for a century. The statement of Thackeray below is inexact, inasmuch as the Oxford servitors did not correspond to the Cambridge sizars, but to the subsizars.
- n. (d ) One who professes duty or service: formerly used in phrases of civility.
Wiktionary
- n. one who performs the duties of a servant.
- n. one who serves in an army; a soldier.
- n. an undergraduate who performed menial duties in exchange for financial support from his college, particularly at Oxford University
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who serves; a servant; an attendant; one who acts under another; a follower or adherent.
- n. (Univ. of Oxford, Eng.) An undergraduate, partly supported by the college funds, whose duty it formerly was to wait at table. A
servitor corresponded to asizar in Cambridge and Dublin universities.
WordNet 3.0
- n. someone who performs the duties of an attendant for someone else
Etymologies
- From Middle English servitour, from Latin servītor, from Latin servīre, to serve (Wiktionary)
- Middle English servitour, from Anglo-Norman, from Latin servītor, from servīre, to serve; see serve. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The actors find that out; he is admitted within the house as a "servitor" -- a call-boy, if you like; an apprentice, if you please.”
“Conan dismounted and the page called a servitor, who came running to receive the stallion's rein.”
“The ubiquitous Nerio arrived, following a boy and a smaller girl, almost as though the servitor were a rear guard.”
“Where the Gloss: "Every one leaves a little portion in the dish, and gives it to those that serve; which is called the servitor's part.”
“Now it is likely that you have done this with a swagger and have called your servitor "old top" or other playful name.”
“Poor man! it was very unfair, for Mr.C. H--- had told me during our ride that his servitor was a”
“If it is so, then it is only right that his eyes should be opened to the kind of servitor he is harbouring.”
“The term "servitor" then does not refer to his theatrical capacity -- as stated by Halliwell-Phillipps -- but to his legal relations with James Burbage, his employer.”
“There were cooks, laundresses, waiters, valets, lackeys, coachmen, body-servants, and lady's-maids; every kind of servitor which ingenuity could devise or luxury demand.”
“Dag Daughtry had lowered his leprous servitor into the waiting launch.”
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Tweets
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vanishedone Gravitas would also fit. Gravity can mean seriousness or dignity. Oct 23, 2007
seanahan I think you mean gravitas? I doubt it sucks other words in, and I can't envision servants and henchmen orbiting servitor. Oct 23, 2007
vanishedone This one seems to turn up a lot in the Call of Cthulhu tabletop RPG sourcebook: 'Servitor of Glaaki' and so forth. It has a certain gravity... Oct 23, 2007