butler

«butler» in Mova's school dictionary: the chief male servant in a large, rich house, who looks… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a butler, butlers)

meaning for a pupil

1) A butler is the chief male servant in a large, rich house, who looks after the wine, the dining room and the other servants. tree →

2) Butler is also a surname. tree →

sense in the lessons

In stories and films butlers open doors, serve meals and are often polite and calm; in mystery stories people joke «the butler did it». In history lessons pupils learn about servants in big country houses.

examples

• The butler opened the front door and bowed. tree →
• In the old house, the butler served dinner. tree →
• Everyone in the mystery suspected the butler. tree →
• The butler polished all the silver. tree →
• Batman's butler is called Alfred. tree →
• The family no longer had a butler. tree →
• Then, clapping her hands, she summoned the chief butler. tree →

note

Few homes have butlers today. A woman in charge of the servants was usually a «housekeeper».

In the corpora

• And the passage comes up under the butler's pantry, right next to the dining-hall!
• They come to a trap-door, push it up together and climb into the butler's pantry.
• And Pharaoh was wroth against his two officers, against the chief of the butlers, and against the chief of the bakers.
• And he restored the chief butler back unto his butlership; and he gave the cup into Pharaoh's hand.
• Yet did not the chief butler remember Joseph, but forgot him.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «butler» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.