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Butler vs Sommelier - What's the difference?

butler | sommelier |

As a proper noun butler

is .

As a noun sommelier is

a wine steward the person at an expensive restaurant who keeps the wine cellar and advises guests on a choice of wines.

butler

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A manservant having charge of wines and liquors.
  • The chief male servant of a household who has charge of other employees, receives guests, directs the serving of meals, and performs various personal services.
  • * 1929 , Baldwyn Dyke Acland, Filibuster , Chapter 2
  • *:“One marble hall, with staircase complete, one butler' and three to one flunkey, gloves to another, and there was the fourth poor blighter looking like an orphan at a Mothers' Meeting. …"
  • A valet, a male personal attendant.

    • Derived terms

    * buttle (backformation)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To buttle, to dispense wines or liquors; to take the place of a butler.

    • References

    sommelier

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A wine steward. The person at an expensive restaurant who keeps the wine cellar and advises guests on a choice of wines.
    • The sommelier recommended the perfect wine, opened the bottle with panache, and served it into glasses.