SERVANT: Synonyms and Related Words. What is Another Word for SERVANT?

Need another word that means the same as “servant”? Find 7 synonyms and 30 related words for “servant” in this overview.

The synonyms of “Servant” are: retainer, handmaid, handmaiden, attendant, helper, supporter, follower

Servant as a Noun

Definitions of "Servant" as a noun

According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “servant” as a noun can have the following definitions:

• A devoted and helpful follower or supporter.
• A person who performs duties for others, especially a person employed in a house on domestic duties or as a personal attendant.
• In a subordinate position.
• A person employed in the service of a government.
• A person working in the service of another (especially in the household.

Synonyms of "Servant" as a noun (7 Words)

attendant	An event or situation that happens at the same time as or in connection with another. A mosaic of the Empress Theodora with her attendants.
follower	A person who moves or travels behind someone or something. Followers of Nietzsche.
handmaid	A subservient partner or element. This is not to say that the researcher simply becomes the handmaid of the practitioner.
handmaiden	In a subordinate position. Theology should be the handmaiden of ethics.
helper	A person who helps someone else. There was no shortage of willing helpers.
retainer	An appliance for keeping a loose tooth, an orthodontic prosthesis, or orthodontically aligned teeth in place. A guitar string retainer.
supporter	A representation of an animal or other figure, typically one of a pair, holding up or standing beside an escutcheon. Labour supporters.

Usage Examples of "Servant" as a noun

• The state cannot be a servant of the church.
• He was a great servant of the Labour Party.
• A government servant.

Associations of "Servant" (30 Words)

allegiant	That owes or gives allegiance (to someone or something); loyal, faithful. It is impossible to be allegiant to two opposing forces.
butler	English poet (1612-1680.
cleaner	A device for cleaning such as a vacuum cleaner. She s one of the office cleaners.
dutiful	Conscientiously or obediently fulfilling one’s duty. A dutiful visit.
enslave	Make a slave of; bring into servitude. They were enslaved by their need to take drugs.
epigone	A less distinguished follower or imitator of someone, especially an artist or philosopher. The humdrum compositions of some of Beethoven s epigones.
factotum	An employee who does all kinds of work. He was employed as the general factotum.
fawning	Displaying exaggerated flattery or affection; obsequious. Fawning adoration.
flatter	Choose to believe something favourable about oneself, typically when this belief is unfounded. I was very flattered to be given the commission.
flattery	Excessive and insincere praise, given especially to further one’s own interests. She allowed no hint of flattery to enter her voice.
follower	Someone who is tracking a particular person, group, organization, etc. on a social media website or application. She remains an immensely divisive figure but she has a million followers on Facebook.
footman	A slender moth that is typically of a subdued colour, the caterpillar feeding almost exclusively on lichens.
groveling	Totally submissive.
henchman	A faithful follower or political supporter, especially one prepared to engage in crime or violence by way of service. The dictator s henchman.
hireling	A person who works purely for material reward. The poorly paid hirelings in their shabby clothes.
housekeeper	A servant who is employed to perform domestic task in a household.
ingratiate	Gain favor with somebody by deliberate efforts. A sycophantic attempt to ingratiate herself with the local aristocracy.
ingratiating	Capable of winning favor. An ingratiating manner.
lackey	Behave in a servile way towards (someone. He denied that he was the lackey of the Chief Secretary to the Treasury.
maid	A female domestic servant. Mary eventually managed to find a job as a maid.
minion	A servile or fawning dependant. He gets oppressed minions like me to fob them off.
obedient	Complying or willing to comply with an order or request; submissive to another’s authority. A little man obedient to his wife.
obsequious	Obedient or attentive to an excessive or servile degree. Obsequious shop assistants.
parasite	A follower who hangs around a host (without benefit to the host) in hope of gain or advantage. He was a parasite who lived off other people.
servile	Of or characteristic of a slave or slaves. Servile tasks such as floor scrubbing and barn work.
submissive	Abjectly submissive characteristic of a slave or servant S H Adams. Submissive servants.
sycophant	A person who acts obsequiously towards someone important in order to gain advantage.
sycophantic	Attempting to win favor by flattery. A sycophantic interview.
toady	A person who behaves obsequiously to someone important. She imagined him toadying to his rich clients.
unctuous	(chiefly of minerals) having a greasy or soapy feel. He seemed anxious to please but not in an unctuous way.