Definition of Servant

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Servant

One who serves, or does services, voluntarily or on compulsion; a person who is employed by another for menial offices, or for other labor, and is subject to his command; a person who labors or exerts himself for the benefit of another, his master or employer; a subordinate helper.

One in a state of subjection or bondage.

A professed lover or suitor; a gallant.

To subject.

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Servant Quotations

I was only the servant of my country and had I, at any moment, failed to express her unflinching resolve to fight and conquer, I should at once have been rightly cast aside.
Winston Churchill

If you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself.
Benjamin Franklin

Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.
Mohandas Gandhi

Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.
George Washington

He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.
Plato

In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
Charles de Gaulle

To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others.
Pope John Paul II

Dear God, please take care of your servant John Fitzgerald Kennedy.
Jackie Kennedy

Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.
Chanakya

If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
R. Buckminster Fuller

Servant Translations

servant in Afrikaans is bediende
servant in Dutch is dienstmeisje, dienares, meid
servant in French is serviteur
servant in German is Diener
servant in Latin is creatura, famulus
servant in Norwegian is hushjelp
servant in Portuguese is criada, empregado
servant in Spanish is criada, criado, servidor, sirviente

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