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Servant vs Bondservant - What's the difference?

servant | bondservant |

As nouns the difference between servant and bondservant

is that servant is one who is hired to perform regular household or other duties, and receives compensation. As opposed to a slave while bondservant is an indentured servant.

As a verb servant

is to subject.

servant

English

Alternative forms

* servaunt (obsolete) * (obsolete)

Noun

(en noun)
  • One who is hired to perform regular household or other duties, and receives compensation. As opposed to a slave.
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  • *:As a political system democracy seems to me extraordinarily foolish, but I would not go out of my way to protest against it. My servant is, so far as I am concerned, welcome to as many votes as he can get. I would very gladly make mine over to him if I could.
  • One who serves another, providing help in some manner.
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    • Derived terms

    * assigned servant * civil servant * manservant * maidservant * public servant * servantly

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To subject.
    • (Shakespeare)
    (Webster 1913)

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    bondservant

    English

    Noun

  • An indentured servant.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1901, author=Charles W. Chesnutt, title=The Marrow of Tradition, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=The captain was an upstart, a product of the democratic idea operating upon the poor white man, the descendant of the indentured bondservant and the socially unfit. }}