Collocations for "servant"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "servant" in context.
WordReference English Collocations © 2025servant
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.n- a [faithful, trusted, loyal, devoted, lowly] servant
- the [family's, royal's, household's] loyal servant
- was a long-standing servant of the [family]
- the [palace, estate] employed [twenty] servants
- the [palace] was [hiring, taking on] new servants
- asked the servant to [bring, greet, make, clean]
- there were servants and [butlers, housemaids, porters]
- (among) the servant's [duties, tasks, responsibilities]
- works as a [civil, public] servant
- religion: is a servant of [God, Jesus, Christ]
'servant' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
A civil servant can't expect to serve in an institution till his retirement, can we? - English Only forum
A poor but thoroughly respectable domestic servant of the better class she looked - English Only forum
a servant to clean the windows - English Only forum
and the words of the civil servant in Yes Minister - English Only forum
as he ever looked upon a faithful servant - English Only forum
batboy (servant) - English Only forum
Be a civil servant who won't be ashamed to your juniors in 10 years. - English Only forum
civil servant - English Only forum
Civil servant, state employee, government employee, official - English Only forum
Eden takes a man's full share in the evening= A civil servant called Eden drunk as much as a man? - English Only forum
engage a servant <on his face> - English Only forum
Fille=Muchacha?(as female servant) - English Only forum
Fire is a good servant but a bad master. - English Only forum
For not as a bond-servant or dependent - English Only forum
Hand: An <agent> a servant, or manual laborer [definition] - English Only forum
Housemaid/Domestic worker/Servant/House keeper [housekeeper] - English Only forum
I am not your servant that you should command me. - English Only forum
I provided me a horse for my servant - English Only forum
If I had time, and was not in mortal dread of some prating prig of a servant passing - English Only forum
If she had been a servant, it would mean you <had> ordered her. - English Only forum
including a civil servant, who was sentenced (comma) - English Only forum
man's & servant's meat - English Only forum
master and servant relationship - English Only forum
Master of nothing, servant of none - English Only forum
master/servant relationship - English Only forum
merely a loyal servant, and/but does not have slightest idea - English Only forum
mounted livery servant - English Only forum
my gentleman [servant?] - English Only forum
official/civil servant - English Only forum
officialdom/civil servant - English Only forum
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