servant

One who is privately employed to perform domestic services.

One who is publicly employed to perform services, as for a government.

One who expresses submission, recognizance, or debt to another.

To subject; subordinate.

To furnish with one or more servants.

One who serves or attends, whether voluntarily or involuntarily; a person employed by another, and subject to his orders; one who exerts himself or herself, or labors, for the benefit of a master or an employer; an attendant; a subordinate assistant; an agent.

Specifically

A bondman or bondwoman; a slave.

(b A person hired for a specified time to do manual or field labor; a laborer.

A person in domestic service; a household or personal attendant; a domestic; a menial. An upper servant is one who has assistants under him or her, as a butler, a head cook, or a head coachman; an under servant is one who takes orders from an upper one, as an under-nurse, a scullery-maid, or a groom.