Meaning

3 senses
  1. One who performs the duties of a servant.

    1884, W.S. Gilbert, Princess Ida You'll find no sizars here, or servitors / or other cruel distinctions meant to draw / a line 'twixt rich and poor

    someone who performs the duties of an attendant for someone else

  2. One who serves in an army; a soldier.

  3. (historical)An undergraduate who performed menial duties in exchange for financial support from his college, particularly at Oxford University.

Examples

1 sentences
  1. But to-night the elderly servitor was solemn and unloquacious beyond his custom.

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Origin

From Middle English servitour, borrowed from Latin servītor, from servīre (“to serve”).

From Middle English servitour, borrowed from Latin servītor, from servīre (“to serve”).

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Forms

plural: servitors
Singularservitor
Pluralservitors

regular

Word family

3 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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