BUTLER Synonyms: 49 Similar and Opposite Words

butler

noun

Definition of butler

as in manservant

a man employed in in the home of a wealthy person to perform various personal services and to be in charge of other household employees

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Recent Examples of butler All 228 rooms come with a personal butler, who’s at your beck and call 24/7. — Condé Nast, cntraveler.com, 7 Oct. 2026 Beyond the best-in-show dog, the movie stars his owner, her butler and their extended family. — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 7 Oct. 2026 Each has about six acres of garden and comes with a household of staff (your own butler, house manager, and chef). — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2026 And Britain itself, after the financial and cultural boom of the ’90s, has in the post-recession era settled into its new role as butler to the world, to borrow a phrase from writer and money-laundering muckraker Oliver Bullough. — Eliza Goodpasture, ARTnews.com, 5 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for butler

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Noun

The Your Friends and Neighbors star plays a character named Lee, Adam’s Chinese American manservant, in East of Eden.

— Chris Murphy, Vanity Fair, 30 Sep. 2026
The only person who knows Diego’s secret is Bernardo (Salvatore Ficarra), his mute manservant.

— Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 30 June 2026

Definition of manservant

Noun

After individually deciding to bail on the dinner, the pair run into each other by the valet, and their mutual attraction, despite their vastly different personalities, leads to a spicy evening together.

— Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 23 Oct. 2026
Douglas says that at one major talent agency, a valet could allegedly replace a $100 bill left in a car with a packet of cocaine.

— Christina Dugan Ramirez, FOXNews.com, 10 Oct. 2026

Definition of valet

Noun

Fawcett joined the royal household as a footman to Queen Elizabeth in 1981 and rose through the ranks to become Charles’ valet and then head of The Prince’s Foundation, a nonprofit that funds his favorite charitable causes.

— Martha Ross, Mercury News, 17 Sep. 2026
The king and queen always face the direction of travel and will exit first; their guests face the footmen and will exit after the monarchs.

— Guy Martin, Forbes.com, 19 June 2026

Definition of footman

Noun

Particularly for a character like this, who is literally a servant and has to exist in the hollows created by other people in that world — that’s a very useful tool for me as an actor.

— Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 21 Oct. 2026
Screen vet Leguizamo most recently played Eumaeus, Odysseus’ faithful servant and friend, in Christopher Nolan and Universal’s box office juggernaut The Odyssey.

— Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 21 Oct. 2026

Definition of servant

Noun

Garcia has held various positions at the restaurant and hotel, working his way up from a hotel houseman to a waiter at the restaurant and now a manager.

— Janelle Griffith, PEOPLE, 10 Aug. 2026
The 25-year-old earned around $28 an hour as a night houseman on the evening shift at Omni Boston Hotel at the Seaport.

— Melanie Stetson Freeman, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Feb. 2025

Definition of houseman

Noun

The bride and groom in the picture are Renee and Mario Ippolito, who were married in Portage Park on April 18, 2009.

— Allison Kiehl, Chicago Tribune, 28 Oct. 2026
The bride, who wore an Oscar de la Renta gown, and the groom celebrated afterward with a reception at the Everglades Club in Palm Beach.

— Kimberly Nordyke, HollywoodReporter, 25 Oct. 2026

Definition of groom

Noun

The color palette changed so that the attire of the Cogsworth character — the Beast’s loyal majordomo who has been transformed into a clock — is now green rather than brown.

— Tribune News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 July 2026
The Huntington's majordomo does this with an eye toward guests–making sure they’re greeted warmly and that any preferences are known and reflected throughout their stay.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 June 2026

Definition of majordomo

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