🔍 牛津詞典
🔍 朗文詞典
🔍 劍橋詞典
🔍 柯林斯詞典
🔍 麥美倫詞典
🔍 韋氏詞典 🎯

檢索以下詞典:
(Mr. Ng 不推薦使用 Google 翻譯!)
最近搜尋:
BNC: 26598 COCA: 27216

manservant

noun

man·​ser·​vant ˈman-ˌsər-vənt How to pronounce manservant (audio)
plural menservants ˈmen-ˌsər-vən(t)s How to pronounce manservant (audio)
: a male servant

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web The gate is guarded by an elderly manservant for whom the term faithful retainer might have been invented. Helen Lewis, The Atlantic, 12 Apr. 2022 George Burcea will play Lurch, the towering family manservant. Isaac Ordonez will play Gomez and Morticia’s son, Pugsley. Lauren Puckett-pope, ELLE, 8 June 2022 Isaac Ordonez plays Wednesday’s brother Pugsley in a recurring role, while George Burcea plays the family manservant Lurch. Wilson Chapman, Variety, 6 June 2022 Count Almaviva, a Spanish nobleman, has been lusting after Susanna, his wife’s chambermaid, who is about to be married to the Count’s manservant, Figaro. Matthew Aucoin, The Atlantic, 23 Nov. 2021 John Smith saves the man who fell overboard; Ratcliffe is the government lackey in a suit who hunkers down in his cabin and only emerges once the danger has passed, clutching his pug while his manservant shields him with an umbrella. Carolyn Wells, Longreads, 13 Apr. 2021 The bathers have returned in the sequel, but filmmakers made sure that visiting Mary Junson (Leslie Jones) enjoyed her own strapping personal bather manservant (Donny Savage). Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 6 Mar. 2021 Each confuses the inspector with a different version of how the manservant broke his neck. Don Maines, Houston Chronicle, 11 Oct. 2019 According to Arts Reader, Lord secretly advocated for Stump to be cast in the Michigan production of Don Giovanni in the role of a manservant who enables seductions and rapes. Tresa Baldas, Detroit Free Press, 19 June 2019 See More

Word History

First Known Use

14th century, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of manservant was in the 14th century

👨🏻‍🏫 Mr. Ng 韋氏詞典 📚 – mw.mister5️⃣.net
切換為繁體中文
Site Uptime