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Definition of butler in English: butlernounˈbʌtləˈbətlər The chief manservant of a house. 仆役长，男管家 Example sentencesExamples - Inside were sparkling chandeliers in every room, carpeted staircases, butlers and servants at your feet and really wonderful food and expensive wine.
- You know, probably the most powerful people within a household are valets, dressers and butlers.
- White House butlers and such probably do the same.
- After that I fantasized for hours about living in such a house and having several maids and butlers instead of our one.
- In those days, a grand house would employ at least 16 domestic servants, and perhaps an army of 30-cooks, parlour maids, footmen, hall boys, gardeners, butlers, coachmen.
- In the past five years demand for housekeepers and butlers has risen ten-fold in the UK.
- They walked down to the basement level, and found a wing for all of the cooks, servants, maids, and butlers.
- Not because you had a huge house with tons of maids and butlers.
- Personal staff costs - for two butlers, a valet, four chefs, two chauffeurs, eight housekeepers, eight gardeners and a secretariat - are probably another £1m.
- These butlers, footmen, valets, drivers, personal assistants, and bodyguards knew where the bodies lay.
- It's such a large house and the butlers are all cranky old men who are hardly the right kind of companionship for a young woman.
- Grown-ups who worked as grooms, butlers, maids or gardeners in the surrounding plantation houses occasionally brought these home with left-over foods wrapped in them.
- He even had a few maids and butlers who attended us.
- I am going to live in a rich palace and have butlers; servants and maids help me doing every task.
- There was a couple from Chicago who went around the world attended by a butler.
- I miss the people in the White House: the butlers, the house men, and the curator, and you know, the usher that runs the place.
- The butler is a servant who seems to have turned the tables and become master.
- We moved into a bigger house and hired a few maids and butlers.
- Beth guessed from the man's tone of voice that he was the house butler.
- Every room had maids and servants and butlers all cleaning and decorating his home.
OriginMiddle English: from Old French bouteillier 'cup-bearer', from bouteille 'bottle'. bottle from Late Middle English: The word bottle goes back to Latin buttis ‘cask, wineskin’, the origin of butt (Late Middle English) and also of butler (Middle English) originally the man in charge of the wine-cellar. To have a lot of bottle and the related phrases to lose your bottle and to bottle out, meaning ‘to lose your nerve’, date back to the 1950s. ‘Bottle’ here may be from rhyming slang bottle and glass, ‘arse’.
Definition of butler in US English: butlernounˈbətlərˈbətlər The chief manservant of a house. 仆役长，男管家 Example sentencesExamples - Personal staff costs - for two butlers, a valet, four chefs, two chauffeurs, eight housekeepers, eight gardeners and a secretariat - are probably another £1m.
- It's such a large house and the butlers are all cranky old men who are hardly the right kind of companionship for a young woman.
- Every room had maids and servants and butlers all cleaning and decorating his home.
- Beth guessed from the man's tone of voice that he was the house butler.
- They walked down to the basement level, and found a wing for all of the cooks, servants, maids, and butlers.
- There was a couple from Chicago who went around the world attended by a butler.
- In the past five years demand for housekeepers and butlers has risen ten-fold in the UK.
- You know, probably the most powerful people within a household are valets, dressers and butlers.
- After that I fantasized for hours about living in such a house and having several maids and butlers instead of our one.
- Not because you had a huge house with tons of maids and butlers.
- I am going to live in a rich palace and have butlers; servants and maids help me doing every task.
- White House butlers and such probably do the same.
- I miss the people in the White House: the butlers, the house men, and the curator, and you know, the usher that runs the place.
- He even had a few maids and butlers who attended us.
- Inside were sparkling chandeliers in every room, carpeted staircases, butlers and servants at your feet and really wonderful food and expensive wine.
- In those days, a grand house would employ at least 16 domestic servants, and perhaps an army of 30-cooks, parlour maids, footmen, hall boys, gardeners, butlers, coachmen.
- These butlers, footmen, valets, drivers, personal assistants, and bodyguards knew where the bodies lay.
- We moved into a bigger house and hired a few maids and butlers.
- The butler is a servant who seems to have turned the tables and become master.
- Grown-ups who worked as grooms, butlers, maids or gardeners in the surrounding plantation houses occasionally brought these home with left-over foods wrapped in them.
OriginMiddle English: from Old French bouteillier ‘cupbearer’, from bouteille ‘bottle’. |