The butler announced Mr. and Mrs. Smith.
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Butler
//ˈbʌt.lɚ//
Synonyms for "butler" (41 found)
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Closest matches (9)
Strong matches (12)
Related words (20)
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3 entriesRelated terms
1 entriescapable of
2 entriesderived
23 entriesShowing 16 of 23 words.
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1 entriesis a
4 entriesrelated to
35 entriesShowing 16 of 35 words.
used for
1 entriesTranslations
72 translations across 39 languages.
Arabic
2 entries- قَهْرَمَان noun (chief male servant)
- كَبِير خَدَم noun (manservant having charge of wines and liquors)
Belarusian
3 entries- дварэ́цкі noun (chief male servant)
- камерды́нер noun (chief male servant)
- мажардо́м noun (chief male servant)
Bulgarian
1 entries- иконо́м noun (chief male servant)
Catalan
2 entries- majordom noun (chief male servant)
- sommelier noun (manservant having charge of wines and liquors)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 執事 /执事 noun (chief male servant)
- 男僕 /男仆 noun (manservant having charge of wines and liquors)
- 管家 noun (manservant having charge of wines and liquors)
- 管家 noun (chief male servant)
Czech
2 entries- majordomus noun (chief male servant)
- vrchní sluha noun (chief male servant)
Danish
1 entries- butler noun (chief male servant)
Dutch
1 entries- butler noun (chief male servant)
Egyptian
1 entries- W22-W-A1 noun (manservant having charge of wines and liquors)
Esperanto
1 entries- ĉefservisto noun (chief male servant)
Finnish
2 entries- hovimestari noun (chief male servant)
- sommelier noun (manservant having charge of wines and liquors)
French
2 entries- majordome noun (chief male servant)
- sommelier noun (manservant having charge of wines and liquors)
Galician
2 entries- mordomo noun (chief male servant)
- sumiller noun (manservant having charge of wines and liquors)
German
1 entries- Butler noun (chief male servant)
Greek
1 entries- αρχιοικονόμος noun (chief male servant)
Hebrew
2 entries- בֶּן מֶשֶׁק הַבַּיִת noun (chief male servant)
- רַב מְשָׁרְתִים noun (chief male servant)
Hindi
2 entries- ख़ानसामा noun (manservant having charge of wines and liquors)
- ख़ानसामाँ noun (manservant having charge of wines and liquors)
Indonesian
1 entries- pelayan noun (chief male servant)
Italian
2 entries- costituente noun (manservant having charge of wines and liquors)
- maggiordomo noun (chief male servant)
Japanese
2 entries- ソムリエ noun (manservant having charge of wines and liquors)
- 執事 noun (chief male servant)
Korean
2 entries- 소믈리에 noun (manservant having charge of wines and liquors)
- 집사 noun (chief male servant)
Latin
1 entries- prōmus noun (chief male servant)
Macedonian
3 entries- ба́тлер noun (chief male servant)
- слу́жител noun (manservant having charge of wines and liquors)
- слу́жител noun (chief male servant)
Norwegian
1 entries- bøtler noun (chief male servant)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- butler noun (chief male servant)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- سفرهجی noun (chief male servant)
Persian
1 entries- پیشخدمت noun (manservant having charge of wines and liquors)
Polish
1 entries- kamerdyner noun (chief male servant)
Portuguese
2 entries- mordomo noun (manservant having charge of wines and liquors)
- mordomo noun (chief male servant)
Romanian
4 entries- chelar noun (manservant having charge of wines and liquors)
- majordom noun (chief male servant)
- pivnicer noun (manservant having charge of wines and liquors)
- somelier noun (manservant having charge of wines and liquors)
Russian
4 entries- дворе́цкий noun (manservant having charge of wines and liquors)
- дворе́цкий noun (chief male servant)
- домоправи́тель noun (chief male servant)
- камерди́нер noun (chief male servant)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- buidealair noun (chief male servant)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- bȁtler noun (chief male servant)
- ба̏тлер noun (chief male servant)
Spanish
4 entries- guardés noun (chief male servant)
- mayordomo noun (chief male servant)
- sommelier (somelié) noun (manservant having charge of wines and liquors)
- sumiller noun (manservant having charge of wines and liquors)
Swedish
2 entries- betjänt noun (chief male servant)
- butler noun (chief male servant)
Turkish
1 entries- kahya noun (chief male servant)
Ukrainian
3 entries- дворе́цький noun (chief male servant)
- камерди́нер noun (chief male servant)
- мажордо́м noun (chief male servant)
Urdu
1 entries- خانسامان noun (manservant having charge of wines and liquors)
Vietnamese
1 entries- quản gia noun (chief male servant)
Sample sentences
11 total sentences available.
I wish I had a butler like Tom.
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He has a butler and a cook.
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Tom has a butler.
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Showing 4 of 11 available sentences.
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