Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - servant

(servants) Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 1. A servant is someone who is employed to work at another person’s home, for example as a cleaner or a gardener. N-COUNT 2. You can use servant to refer to someone or something that provides a service for people or can be used by them. The question is whether technology is going to be our servant or our master. N-COUNT see also civil servant