servant

• n.使用人、女中；公務員；雇われ労働者
• n.(使用人)人名; (S.) Servant; (F.) Servant.

serve、service、serving、-ant、personから。

servant (n.)

c. 1200, "personal or domestic attendant," from Old French servant "servant; foot-soldier," noun use of servant "serving, waiting," present participle of servir "to attend, wait upon" (see serve (v.)).

Meaning "professed lover, one devoted to the service of a lady" is from mid-14c. In North American colonies and U.S., the usual designation for "slave" 17c.-18c. (in 14c.-15c. and later in Biblical translations the word often was used to render Latin servus, Greek doulos "slave"). Public servant is attested from 1670s.

1. Daniel arrived in Maryland as an indentured servant .

ダニエルは契約奉公人としてメリーランド州に来た。

2.They treat their mother like a servant .

彼らは自分の母親を人間と同じように扱っている。

3.The servant bowed the guests out as they left.

お客様が去ったとき、召使いは頭を下げて彼らを家まで送った。

4.Tell the servant to knock me up at five o 'clock.

5時にノックして起こしてくれるように召使いに伝えて。

5.The old servant fulfilled his master 's charge to care for the children.

老召使いは、主人が子供の世話をするように指示したことを履行した。