Definition of Butler

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Definition of Butler
	Butler An officer in a king's or a nobleman's household, whose principal business it is to take charge of the liquors, plate, etc.; the head servant in a large house. Related Definitions: An, Business, Charge, Head, House, Household, In, Is, It, King, Large, Nobleman, Of, Officer, Or, Plate, Principal, Servant, Take, The, To, Whose

Butler Quotations

Ah, the patter of little feet around the house. There's nothing like having a midget for a butler.
W. C. Fields

Sophistication might be described as the ability to cope gracefully with a situation involving the presence of a formidable menace to one's poise and prestige (such as the butler, or the man under the bed - but never the husband).
James Thurber

As far as I'm concerned, "whom" is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler.
Calvin Trillin

When I was starting to write, the great influence was T.S. Eliot and after that William Butler Yeats.
Howard Nemerov

Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler, And daughters sometimes run off with the butler.
George Byron

Octavia Butler, of course, is brilliant and disturbing.
Sarah Zettel

Butler Translations

butler in German is Butler, Diener
butler in Latin is promus
butler in Norwegian is hovmester
butler in Spanish is mayordomo

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