Servingman

Quick meaning: Servingman is a noun meaning A male servant.

Meaning

A male servant.

Example Sentences

A minor character in Romeo and Juliet, Abram is a servingman in the Montague household who fights with the Capulet servants in the opening scene of the play.

What, ſhall Ioan haue a Seruingman: is her father ſo madd as he wyll marrie her to a Seruingman: What to a Seruingman ſayes one: To a Seruingman ſayes another: he neyther hath any thyng, nor can earne any thyng.

Well! the greateſt plague of a ſervingman, is to be hir’d to ſome great Lord! They care not what drudgery they put upon us, while they lie lolling at their eaſe a-bed, and ſtretch their lazy limbs, in expectation of the Whore which we are fetching for them.

Madame Badeau lived in a rather shabby-looking rough stone house, quite small in the front, but plenty large enough for her and a serving-man and maid, and running back to a pretty garden, where she cultivated all manner of beautiful flowers, and such roses that lovers of them were always begging a slip or piece of root.

Word Forms

• servingmen
• serving man
• serving-man

Synonyms for servingman

Depending on context, synonyms include manservant.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include serviceman, servaunt, questman, swain, servitor, servantship.

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