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We are beginning to wonder whether a servant girl hasn't the best of it after all. She knows how the salad tastes without the dressing, and she knows how life's lived before it gets to the parlor door.
Djuna Barnes

Meaning of "servant girl" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF SERVANT GIRL

servant girl  [ˈsɜːvənt ɡɜːl] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SERVANT GIRL

noun
adjective
verb
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pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Servant girl is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES SERVANT GIRL MEAN IN ENGLISH?

servant girl

Domestic worker

A domestic worker is a person who works within the employer's household. Domestic workers perform a variety of household services for an individual or a family, from providing care for children and elderly dependents to cleaning and household maintenance, known as housekeeping. Responsibilities may also include cooking, doing laundry and ironing, food shopping and other household errands. Some domestic workers live within the household where they work. At its 301st Session, the ILO Governing Body agreed to place an item on decent work for domestic workers on the agenda of the 99th Session of the International Labour Conference with a view to the setting of labour standards. The conditions faced by domestic workers have varied considerably throughout history and in the contemporary world. In the course of twentieth-century movements for labour rights, women's rights and immigrant rights, the conditions faced by domestic workers and the problems specific to their class of employment have come to the fore. In 2011, the International Labour Organization adopted the Convention Concerning Decent Work for Domestic Workers which covers decent work conditions for domestic workers.

Definition of servant girl in the English dictionary

The definition of servant girl in the dictionary is a girl or woman employed as a servant who performs household duties.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SERVANT GIRL


B-girl
ˈbiːˌɡɜːl
batgirl
ˈbætˌɡɜːl
cowgirl
ˈkaʊɡɜːl
girl
ɡɜːl
gurl
ɡɜːl
homegirl
ˈhəʊmˌɡɜːl
newsgirl
ˈnjuːzˌɡɜːl
playgirl
ˈpleɪˌɡɜːl
salesgirl
ˈseɪlzˌɡɜːl
schoolgirl
ˈskuːlˌɡɜːl
showgirl
ˈʃəʊˌɡɜːl

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SERVANT GIRL

servable
serval
servant
servant-like
servanthood
servantless
servantry
servantship
serve
serve a person right
serveable
server
server farm
servery
Servetus
servewe
Servia
Servian
service
service academy

WORDS THAT END LIKE SERVANT GIRL

baby girl
ball girl
best girl
birthday girl
boy-meets-girl
bunny girl
call girl
chorus girl
cover girl
day girl
flower girl
funny girl
Gibson girl
glamour girl
golden girl
It girl
old girl
show girl
weather girl
wonder girl
working girl

Synonyms and antonyms of servant girl in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «servant girl» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SERVANT GIRL

Find out the translation of servant girl to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of servant girl from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «servant girl» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

丫鬟
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

sirvienta
570 millions of speakers

English

servant girl
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

नौकरानी
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

خادمة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

служанка
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

serva
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

দাসী মেয়ে
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

servante
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Budak perempuan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Dienstmädchen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

女中
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

하녀
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Abdi wadon
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

cô hầu gái
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

வேலைக்காரன் பெண்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

सेवक मुलगी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Hizmetkar kız
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

servetta
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

sługa dziewczyna
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

служниця
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

servitor fată
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

υπηρέτρια
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

diensmeisie
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

piga
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

tjenestepike
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of servant girl

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SERVANT GIRL»

The term «servant girl» is regularly used and occupies the 76.791 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SERVANT GIRL» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about servant girl

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2 QUOTES WITH «SERVANT GIRL»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word servant girl.
1
Djuna Barnes
We are beginning to wonder whether a servant girl hasn't the best of it after all. She knows how the salad tastes without the dressing, and she knows how life's lived before it gets to the parlor door.
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Caitlin Flanagan
I come from an immigrant culture. I'm only a couple of generations away from having been a servant girl myself.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SERVANT GIRL»

Discover the use of servant girl in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to servant girl and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Servant Girl Murders
The Servant Girl Murders documents the true story of a series of mysterious murders that occurred in Austin, Texas during the year 1885.
J. r. Galloway, 2010
2
The Servant Girl Question
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series.
Harriet Prescott Spofford, 2010
3
New Perspectives on the Irish Diaspora
The servant girl in nineteenth-century Irish-American fiction is usually rewarded with marriage to a kind, steady man and occasionally with a return visit to Ireland; however, it is the survival and prosperity of her family, of her father, mother, and ...
Charles Fanning, 2000
4
Notorious Blasted Rascal: Colonel Charteris and the Servant ...
"The most notorious blasted rascal in the world." —Lord ChesterfieldThe venal and depraved reputation of Colonel Francis Charteris (1672–1732), and the story of his celebrated trial for the rape of his servant girl, one of the most ...
Linda Stratmann, 2008
5
Annihilation In Austin: The Servant Girl Annihilator Murders ...
Written with gripping, page turning suspense, this book brings you back in time to Austin, Texas, so you can experience the horror and panic for yourself. Faint at heart turn away!
Tim Huddleston, 2013
6
Girl Reading: A Novel
Dazzlingly inventive, this is “a fascinating testament to the universal themes of art and literature and the spirit of femininity” (BookPage).
Katie Ward, 2012
7
Margaret Atwood: Works and Impact
To whose voice should we Before she wrote the novel, Atwood had already written two dramatic versions of the Grace Marks story: The Servant Girl (1974) for CBC Radio, and an unpublished play, Grace ( 1978-9)! listen? Atwood sets out to ...
Reingard M. Nischik, 2000
8
New Italian and English Dictionary in Two Parts: With a New ...
... en. fagot; bundle (of sticks) Faiitaccia, sf. bad servant-girl ; scullion Fantaccfno, im. foot-soldier Fa и tajo, im. one fond of all the servant-girls Fantasía, sf, fancy; whim ; freak; taste i opinion Fantasiáccia, sf. strange fancy ; bad whim Fan tie im*,  ...
F. C. Meadows, 1835
9
Leaves from the Garden of Eden
Meanwhile he waited in his room, although the servant girl thought that he had left with his parents. Then she dressed in an even more beautiful gown, and left for the celebration. And when the rabbi's son came out of his room and saw that ...
‎2010
10
The Wonderful Visit
really was—a servant girl. I know that to give a mere servant girl, or at least an English servant girl, the refined feelings of a human being, to present her as speaking with anything but an intolerable confusion of aspirates, places me outside the ...
Herbert George Wells, 1978

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SERVANT GIRL»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term servant girl is used in the context of the following news items.
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The Servant Girl Annihilator: Austin's oldest unsolved murder case
Four black servants, one 11-year-old girl, a black man and two white women. An unknown murderer took their lives in the mid-1880s in Austin in the most brutal ... «KVUE, Oct 14»
2
Son of Spanish aristocrat and 17-year-old servant girl affair awarded …
Esteban Marchena Garcia, 59, was born to Encarnacion Marchena, a 17-year old servant girl who had an affair with Juan Velez Utrera when she was employed ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Oct 14»
3
HDSI - Texas Servant Girl Murders
HDSI - Texas Servant Girl Murders. +ADD. Aired: 07/15/2014; 54:41; Expires: Rating: TV-G. Before Jack the Ripper, a serial killer walked the streets of Austin, ... «PBS, Jul 14»
4
July Is Crime Month: 'Texas Servant Girl Murders': PBS's 'History …
That's long been the local legend regarding what are called the Servant Girl Murders, a series of grisly killings that took place in our city from New Year's Eve, ... «Austin Chronicle, Jul 14»
5
The Pakistani servant girl tortured to death
The case of a 10-year-old girl in Pakistan's Punjab province, whose employers confessed to beating her to death last week, has highlighted concerns about child ... «BBC News, Jan 14»
6
Japan: Artificial servant girl sparks sexism row
Japan: Artificial servant girl sparks sexism row. News from Elsewhere... ...as found by BBC Monitoring. 10 January 2014. Share. Email · Facebook · Twitter ... «BBC News, Jan 14»
7
Eccles couple sentenced for trafficking servant girl
A couple who trafficked a 10-year-old girl to the UK who was repeatedly raped and kept as a servant for nearly a decade have been jailed. Ilyas and Tallat Ashar ... «BBC News, Oct 13»
8
Eccles couple guilty of trafficking servant girl
A couple who trafficked a 10-year-old girl to the UK who was repeatedly raped and kept as a domestic servant for nearly a decade have been convicted. «BBC News, Oct 13»
9
Cinderella Doesn't Have to Be a Passive Servant Girl Who Gets By …
Cinderella is the ur-princess, which means she's also, in a lot of ways, feminism's ur-bane. Oppressed and downtrodden, she slaves away until she gets her ... «The Atlantic, May 13»
10
When Serial Killers Strike: The Austin Servant Girl Murders
Statesman articles reprinted in James R. Galloway's book, The Servant Girl Murders: Austin, Texas 1885, indicated she was murdered sometime between the ... «HLNtv.com, Feb 13»

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