Minion vs Valet - What's the difference?
minion | valet |
A loyal servant of another, usually a more powerful being.
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(obsolete) A loved one; one highly esteemed and favoured.
* Sylvester
* William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens , IV-III
(obsolete) An ancient form of ordnance with a calibre of about three inches.
(typography, uncountable) A size of type smaller than brevier but larger than nonpareil, roughly equivalent to 7pt.
(obsolete) Favoured, beloved; "pet".
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A man's personal male attendant, responsible for his clothes and appearance.
A hotel employee performing such duties for guests.
(professional wrestling ) A female performer in professional wrestling, acting as either a manager or personal chaperone; often used to attract and titillate male members of the audience.
A female chaperone who accompanies a man, and is usually not married to him.
A person employed to clean or park cars.
A wooden stand on which to hold clothes and accessories in preparation for dressing.
A kind of goad or stick with an iron point.
As nouns the difference between minion and valet
is that minion is a loyal servant of another, usually a more powerful being while valet is a man's personal male attendant, responsible for his clothes and appearance.As an adjective minion
is favoured, beloved; "pet".As a verb valet is
to clean and service (a car), as a valet does.minion
English
(wikipedia minion)Noun
(en noun)Why Does Nature Form Exoplanets Easily?, volume=101, issue=3, page=184, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=In the past two years, NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope has located nearly 3,000 exoplanet candidates ranging from sub-Earth-sized minions to gas giants that dwarf our own Jupiter.}}
- God's disciple and his dearest minion
- Is this the Athenian minion whom the world / Voiced so regardfully?
- (Beaumont and Fletcher)
- (Burton)
Synonyms
* (loyal servant) disciple, follower, henchman, stooge, toadyAdjective
(en adjective)- These favours, with the commodities that follow minion Courtiers, corrupthis libertie, and dazle his judgement.