Servant vs Charwoman - What's the difference?
servant | charwoman |
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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(chiefly, British) A woman employed to do housework.
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As nouns the difference between servant and charwoman
is that servant is one who is hired to perform regular household or other duties, and receives compensation as opposed to a slave while charwoman is (chiefly|british) a woman employed to do housework.As a verb servant
is (obsolete) to subject.servant
English
Alternative forms
* servaunt (obsolete) * (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* assigned servant * civil servant * manservant * maidservant * public servant * servantlyStatistics
*Anagrams
* ----charwoman
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Noun
(charwomen)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=This time was most dreadful for Lilian. Thrown on her own resources and almost penniless, she maintained herself and paid the rent of a wretched room near the hospital by working as a charwoman , sempstress, anything.}} Note: In the nineteenth century, the charlady worked for weekly wages and usually came and went on a daily basis.