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BUTLER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A manservant (usually the head servant of a household) who has charge of wines and the table
Synonyms:
butler; pantryman
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("butler" is a kind of...):
manservant (a man servant)
Sense 2
Meaning:
English poet (1612-1680)
Synonyms:
Butler; Samuel Butler
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
poet (a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry))
Sense 3
Meaning:
English novelist who described a fictitious land he called Erewhon (1835-1902)
Synonyms:
Butler; Samuel Butler
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
author; writer (writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay))
Context examples:
I should be but too happy in taking the part, if it were possible, cried Tom; but, unluckily, the Butler and Anhalt are in together.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
When the butler would have lit his master's candle, however, he was forbidden.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
He did, on the condition of some promises on her side: such as that, if she came home cold, she would be sure to warm herself thoroughly; if hungry, that she would take something to eat; that her own maid should sit up for her; and that Serle and the butler should see that every thing were safe in the house, as usual.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
They ran through the vestibule into the breakfast-room; from thence to the library; their father was in neither; and they were on the point of seeking him up stairs with their mother, when they were met by the butler, who said: If you are looking for my master, ma'am, he is walking towards the little copse.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
And the horses shook themselves, and the dogs jumped up and barked; the pigeons took their heads from under their wings, and looked about and flew into the fields; the flies on the walls buzzed again; the fire in the kitchen blazed up; round went the jack, and round went the spit, with the goose for the king’s dinner upon it; the butler finished his draught of ale; the maid went on plucking the fowl; and the cook gave the boy the box on his ear.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
One evening, at dinner, when Mr. Butler was there, Martin turned the conversation upon Spencer.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
‘Tell me,’ I asked, ‘did your butler ever ask you such a question?’
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“Ah, Mr. Utterson, that’s talking!” cried the butler.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
All was in keeping with a solemn butler who appeared framed in the pink radiance of a tinted electrical light behind him.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
"I was the late Mr. Rochester's butler," he added.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
