| slovo | definícia |
humble
(mass) | humble
- ponížiť |
humble
(encz) | humble,pokorný adj: Zdeněk Brož |
humble
(encz) | humble,pokořit v: Zdeněk Brož |
humble
(encz) | humble,ponížený adj: Zdeněk Brož |
humble
(encz) | humble,ponížit v: Zdeněk Brož |
humble
(encz) | humble,skromný Hynek Hanke |
Humble
(gcide) | Humble \Hum"ble\ (h[u^]m"b'l; 277), a. [Compar. Humbler
(h[u^]m"bl[~e]r); superl. Humblest (h[u^]m"bl[e^]st).] [F.,
fr. L. humilis on the ground, low, fr. humus the earth,
ground. See Homage, and cf. Chameleon, Humiliate.]
1. Near the ground; not high or lofty.
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Thy humble nest built on the ground. --Cowley.
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2. Not pretentious or magnificent; unpretending; unassuming;
modest; as, a humble cottage. Used to describe objects.
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3. Thinking lowly of one's self; claiming little for one's
self; not proud, arrogant, or assuming; thinking one's
self ill-deserving or unworthy, when judged by the demands
of God; lowly; weak; modest. Used to describe people.
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God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the
humble. --Jas. iv. 6.
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She should be humble who would please. --Prior.
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Without a humble imitation of the divine Author of
our . . . religion we can never hope to be a happy
nation. --Washington.
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Humble plant (Bot.), a species of sensitive plant, of the
genus Mimosa (Mimosa sensitiva).
To eat humble pie, to endure mortification; to submit or
apologize abjectly; to yield passively to insult or
humiliation; -- a phrase derived from a pie made of the
entrails or humbles of a deer, which was formerly served
to servants and retainers at a hunting feast. See
Humbles. --Halliwell. --Thackeray.
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Humble
(gcide) | Humble \Hum"ble\, a.
Hornless. See Hummel. [Scot.]
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Humble
(gcide) | Humble \Hum"ble\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Humbled; p. pr. & vb. n.
Humbling.]
1. To bring low; to reduce the power, independence, or
exaltation of; to lower; to abase; to humilate.
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Here, take this purse, thou whom the heaven's
plagues
Have humbled to all strokes. --Shak.
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The genius which humbled six marshals of France.
--Macaulay.
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2. To make humble or lowly in mind; to abase the pride or
arrogance of; to reduce the self-sufficiently of; to make
meek and submissive; -- often used rexlexively.
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Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of
God, that he may exalt you. --1 Pet. v. 6.
Syn: To abase; lower; depress; humiliate; mortify; disgrace;
degrade.
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humble
(wn) | humble
adj 1: low or inferior in station or quality; "a humble
cottage"; "a lowly parish priest"; "a modest man of the
people"; "small beginnings" [syn: humble, low,
lowly, modest, small]
2: marked by meekness or modesty; not arrogant or prideful; "a
humble apology"; "essentially humble...and self-effacing, he
achieved the highest formal honors and distinctions"-
B.K.Malinowski [ant: proud]
3: used of unskilled work (especially domestic work) [syn:
humble, menial, lowly]
4: of low birth or station (`base' is archaic in this sense);
"baseborn wretches with dirty faces"; "of humble (or lowly)
birth" [syn: base, baseborn, humble, lowly]
v 1: cause to be unpretentious; "This experience will humble
him"
2: cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of; "He humiliated his
colleague by criticising him in front of the boss" [syn:
humiliate, mortify, chagrin, humble, abase] |
| | podobné slovo | definícia |
humble
(mass) | humble
- ponížiť |
in my humble opinion
(msas) | In My Humble Opinion
- IMHO |
in my not so humble opinion
(msas) | In My Not So Humble Opinion
- IMNSHO |
in my humble opinion
(msasasci) | In My Humble Opinion
- IMHO |
in my not so humble opinion
(msasasci) | In My Not So Humble Opinion
- IMNSHO |
eat humble pie
(encz) | eat humble pie,kát se v: Zdeněk Brožeat humble pie,podřídit se v: Zdeněk Brožeat humble pie,uznat chybu Zdeněk Brož |
humble
(encz) | humble,pokorný adj: Zdeněk Brožhumble,pokořit v: Zdeněk Brožhumble,ponížený adj: Zdeněk Brožhumble,ponížit v: Zdeněk Brožhumble,skromný Hynek Hanke |
humble plant
(encz) | humble plant, n: |
humblebee
(encz) | humblebee,čmelák n: Zdeněk Brož |
humbled
(encz) | humbled, |
humbleness
(encz) | humbleness,pokora n: Zdeněk Brožhumbleness,skromnost n: Zdeněk Brož |
humbler
(encz) | humbler,skromnější adj: Zdeněk Brož |
humblest
(encz) | humblest,nejskromnější adj: Zdeněk Brož |
in my humble opinion
(encz) | in my humble opinion,dle mého skromného názoru [zkr.] Milan Svoboda |
in my not so humble opinion
(czen) | In My Not So Humble Opinion,IMNSHO[zkr.] |
in my not so very humble opinion
(czen) | In My Not So Very Humble Opinion,IMNSVHO[zkr.] |
in my very humble opinion
(czen) | In My Very Humble Opinion,IMVHO[zkr.] |
just my humble f---ing opinion of course
(czen) | Just My Humble F---ing Opinion Of Course,JMHFOOC[zkr.] |
Humble plant
(gcide) | Humble \Hum"ble\ (h[u^]m"b'l; 277), a. [Compar. Humbler
(h[u^]m"bl[~e]r); superl. Humblest (h[u^]m"bl[e^]st).] [F.,
fr. L. humilis on the ground, low, fr. humus the earth,
ground. See Homage, and cf. Chameleon, Humiliate.]
1. Near the ground; not high or lofty.
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Thy humble nest built on the ground. --Cowley.
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2. Not pretentious or magnificent; unpretending; unassuming;
modest; as, a humble cottage. Used to describe objects.
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3. Thinking lowly of one's self; claiming little for one's
self; not proud, arrogant, or assuming; thinking one's
self ill-deserving or unworthy, when judged by the demands
of God; lowly; weak; modest. Used to describe people.
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God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the
humble. --Jas. iv. 6.
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She should be humble who would please. --Prior.
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Without a humble imitation of the divine Author of
our . . . religion we can never hope to be a happy
nation. --Washington.
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Humble plant (Bot.), a species of sensitive plant, of the
genus Mimosa (Mimosa sensitiva).
To eat humble pie, to endure mortification; to submit or
apologize abjectly; to yield passively to insult or
humiliation; -- a phrase derived from a pie made of the
entrails or humbles of a deer, which was formerly served
to servants and retainers at a hunting feast. See
Humbles. --Halliwell. --Thackeray.
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Humblebee
(gcide) | Humblebee \Hum"ble*bee`\, n. [OE. humbilbee, hombulbe; cf. D.
hommel, G. hummel, OHG. humbal, Dan. humle, Sw. humla; perh.
akin to hum. [root]15. Cf. Bumblebee.] (Zool.)
The bumblebee. --Shak.
[1913 Webster]Bumblebee \Bum"ble*bee`\, n. [OE. bumblen to make a humming
noise (dim. of bum, v. i.) + bee. Cf. Humblebee.] (Zool.)
A large bee of the genus Bombus, sometimes called
humblebee; -- so named from its sound.
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Note: There are many species. All gather honey, and store it
in the empty cocoons after the young have come out.
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humblebee
(gcide) | Humblebee \Hum"ble*bee`\, n. [OE. humbilbee, hombulbe; cf. D.
hommel, G. hummel, OHG. humbal, Dan. humle, Sw. humla; perh.
akin to hum. [root]15. Cf. Bumblebee.] (Zool.)
The bumblebee. --Shak.
[1913 Webster]Bumblebee \Bum"ble*bee`\, n. [OE. bumblen to make a humming
noise (dim. of bum, v. i.) + bee. Cf. Humblebee.] (Zool.)
A large bee of the genus Bombus, sometimes called
humblebee; -- so named from its sound.
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Note: There are many species. All gather honey, and store it
in the empty cocoons after the young have come out.
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Humbled
(gcide) | Humble \Hum"ble\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Humbled; p. pr. & vb. n.
Humbling.]
1. To bring low; to reduce the power, independence, or
exaltation of; to lower; to abase; to humilate.
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Here, take this purse, thou whom the heaven's
plagues
Have humbled to all strokes. --Shak.
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The genius which humbled six marshals of France.
--Macaulay.
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2. To make humble or lowly in mind; to abase the pride or
arrogance of; to reduce the self-sufficiently of; to make
meek and submissive; -- often used rexlexively.
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Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of
God, that he may exalt you. --1 Pet. v. 6.
Syn: To abase; lower; depress; humiliate; mortify; disgrace;
degrade.
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Humblehead
(gcide) | Humblehead \Hum"ble*head`\, n. [Humble + -head.]
Humble condition or estate; humility. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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Humbleness
(gcide) | Humbleness \Hum"ble*ness\, n.
The quality of being humble; humility; meekness.
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Humbler
(gcide) | Humble \Hum"ble\ (h[u^]m"b'l; 277), a. [Compar. Humbler
(h[u^]m"bl[~e]r); superl. Humblest (h[u^]m"bl[e^]st).] [F.,
fr. L. humilis on the ground, low, fr. humus the earth,
ground. See Homage, and cf. Chameleon, Humiliate.]
1. Near the ground; not high or lofty.
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Thy humble nest built on the ground. --Cowley.
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2. Not pretentious or magnificent; unpretending; unassuming;
modest; as, a humble cottage. Used to describe objects.
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3. Thinking lowly of one's self; claiming little for one's
self; not proud, arrogant, or assuming; thinking one's
self ill-deserving or unworthy, when judged by the demands
of God; lowly; weak; modest. Used to describe people.
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God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the
humble. --Jas. iv. 6.
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She should be humble who would please. --Prior.
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Without a humble imitation of the divine Author of
our . . . religion we can never hope to be a happy
nation. --Washington.
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Humble plant (Bot.), a species of sensitive plant, of the
genus Mimosa (Mimosa sensitiva).
To eat humble pie, to endure mortification; to submit or
apologize abjectly; to yield passively to insult or
humiliation; -- a phrase derived from a pie made of the
entrails or humbles of a deer, which was formerly served
to servants and retainers at a hunting feast. See
Humbles. --Halliwell. --Thackeray.
[1913 Webster]Humbler \Hum"bler\, n.
One who, or that which, humbles some one.
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Humbles
(gcide) | Humbles \Hum"bles\, n. pl. [See Nombles.]
Entrails of a deer. [Written also umbles.] --Johnson.
[1913 Webster]Umbles \Um"bles\, n. pl. [See Nombles.]
The entrails and coarser parts of a deer; hence, sometimes,
entrails, in general. [Written also humbles.] --Johnson.
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humbles
(gcide) | Humbles \Hum"bles\, n. pl. [See Nombles.]
Entrails of a deer. [Written also umbles.] --Johnson.
[1913 Webster]Umbles \Um"bles\, n. pl. [See Nombles.]
The entrails and coarser parts of a deer; hence, sometimes,
entrails, in general. [Written also humbles.] --Johnson.
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Humblesse
(gcide) | Humblesse \Hum"blesse\, n. [OF.]
Humbleness; abasement; low obeisance. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
--Spenser.
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Humblest
(gcide) | Humble \Hum"ble\ (h[u^]m"b'l; 277), a. [Compar. Humbler
(h[u^]m"bl[~e]r); superl. Humblest (h[u^]m"bl[e^]st).] [F.,
fr. L. humilis on the ground, low, fr. humus the earth,
ground. See Homage, and cf. Chameleon, Humiliate.]
1. Near the ground; not high or lofty.
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Thy humble nest built on the ground. --Cowley.
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2. Not pretentious or magnificent; unpretending; unassuming;
modest; as, a humble cottage. Used to describe objects.
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3. Thinking lowly of one's self; claiming little for one's
self; not proud, arrogant, or assuming; thinking one's
self ill-deserving or unworthy, when judged by the demands
of God; lowly; weak; modest. Used to describe people.
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God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the
humble. --Jas. iv. 6.
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She should be humble who would please. --Prior.
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Without a humble imitation of the divine Author of
our . . . religion we can never hope to be a happy
nation. --Washington.
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Humble plant (Bot.), a species of sensitive plant, of the
genus Mimosa (Mimosa sensitiva).
To eat humble pie, to endure mortification; to submit or
apologize abjectly; to yield passively to insult or
humiliation; -- a phrase derived from a pie made of the
entrails or humbles of a deer, which was formerly served
to servants and retainers at a hunting feast. See
Humbles. --Halliwell. --Thackeray.
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Thumbless
(gcide) | Thumbless \Thumb"less\, a.
Without a thumb. --Darwin.
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To eat humble pie
(gcide) | Humble \Hum"ble\ (h[u^]m"b'l; 277), a. [Compar. Humbler
(h[u^]m"bl[~e]r); superl. Humblest (h[u^]m"bl[e^]st).] [F.,
fr. L. humilis on the ground, low, fr. humus the earth,
ground. See Homage, and cf. Chameleon, Humiliate.]
1. Near the ground; not high or lofty.
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Thy humble nest built on the ground. --Cowley.
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2. Not pretentious or magnificent; unpretending; unassuming;
modest; as, a humble cottage. Used to describe objects.
[1913 Webster]
3. Thinking lowly of one's self; claiming little for one's
self; not proud, arrogant, or assuming; thinking one's
self ill-deserving or unworthy, when judged by the demands
of God; lowly; weak; modest. Used to describe people.
[1913 Webster]
God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the
humble. --Jas. iv. 6.
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She should be humble who would please. --Prior.
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Without a humble imitation of the divine Author of
our . . . religion we can never hope to be a happy
nation. --Washington.
[1913 Webster]
Humble plant (Bot.), a species of sensitive plant, of the
genus Mimosa (Mimosa sensitiva).
To eat humble pie, to endure mortification; to submit or
apologize abjectly; to yield passively to insult or
humiliation; -- a phrase derived from a pie made of the
entrails or humbles of a deer, which was formerly served
to servants and retainers at a hunting feast. See
Humbles. --Halliwell. --Thackeray.
[1913 Webster]Eat \Eat\ ([=e]t), v. t. [imp. Ate ([=a]t; 277), Obsolescent &
Colloq. Eat ([e^]t); p. p. Eaten ([=e]t"'n), Obs. or
Colloq. Eat ([e^]t); p. pr. & vb. n. Eating.] [OE. eten,
AS. etan; akin to OS. etan, OFries. eta, D. eten, OHG. ezzan,
G. essen, Icel. eta, Sw. [aum]ta, Dan. [ae]de, Goth. itan,
Ir. & Gael. ith, W. ysu, L. edere, Gr. 'e`dein, Skr. ad.
[root]6. Cf. Etch, Fret to rub, Edible.]
1. To chew and swallow as food; to devour; -- said especially
of food not liquid; as, to eat bread. "To eat grass as
oxen." --Dan. iv. 25.
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They . . . ate the sacrifices of the dead. --Ps.
cvi. 28.
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The lean . . . did eat up the first seven fat kine.
--Gen. xli.
20.
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The lion had not eaten the carcass. --1 Kings
xiii. 28.
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With stories told of many a feat,
How fairy Mab the junkets eat. --Milton.
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The island princes overbold
Have eat our substance. --Tennyson.
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His wretched estate is eaten up with mortgages.
--Thackeray.
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2. To corrode, as metal, by rust; to consume the flesh, as a
cancer; to waste or wear away; to destroy gradually; to
cause to disappear.
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To eat humble pie. See under Humble.
To eat of (partitive use). "Eat of the bread that can not
waste." --Keble.
To eat one's words, to retract what one has said. (See the
Citation under Blurt.)
To eat out, to consume completely. "Eat out the heart and
comfort of it." --Tillotson.
To eat the wind out of a vessel (Naut.), to gain slowly to
windward of her.
Syn: To consume; devour; gnaw; corrode.
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Unhumbled
(gcide) | Unhumbled \Unhumbled\
See humbled. |
Your humble servant
(gcide) | Servant \Serv"ant\, n. [OE. servant, servaunt, F. servant, a &
p. pr. of servir to serve, L. servire. See Serve, and cf.
Sergeant.]
1. One who serves, or does services, voluntarily or on
compulsion; a person who is employed by another for menial
offices, or for other labor, and is subject to his
command; a person who labors or exerts himself for the
benefit of another, his master or employer; a subordinate
helper. "A yearly hired servant." --Lev. xxv. 53.
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Men in office have begun to think themselves mere
agents and servants of the appointing power, and not
agents of the government or the country. --D.
Webster.
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Note: In a legal sense, stewards, factors, bailiffs, and
other agents, are servants for the time they are
employed in such character, as they act in
subordination to others. So any person may be legally
the servant of another, in whose business, and under
whose order, direction, and control, he is acting for
the time being. --Chitty.
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2. One in a state of subjection or bondage.
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Thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt. --Deut. v.
15.
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3. A professed lover or suitor; a gallant. [Obs.]
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In my time a servant was I one. --Chaucer.
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Servant of servants, one debased to the lowest condition of
servitude.
Your humble servant, or Your obedient servant, phrases of
civility formerly often used in closing a letter, now
archaic; -- at one time such phrases were exaggerated to
include Your most humble, most obedient servant.
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Our betters tell us they are our humble servants,
but understand us to be their slaves. --Swift.
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Your most humble most obedient servant
(gcide) | Servant \Serv"ant\, n. [OE. servant, servaunt, F. servant, a &
p. pr. of servir to serve, L. servire. See Serve, and cf.
Sergeant.]
1. One who serves, or does services, voluntarily or on
compulsion; a person who is employed by another for menial
offices, or for other labor, and is subject to his
command; a person who labors or exerts himself for the
benefit of another, his master or employer; a subordinate
helper. "A yearly hired servant." --Lev. xxv. 53.
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Men in office have begun to think themselves mere
agents and servants of the appointing power, and not
agents of the government or the country. --D.
Webster.
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Note: In a legal sense, stewards, factors, bailiffs, and
other agents, are servants for the time they are
employed in such character, as they act in
subordination to others. So any person may be legally
the servant of another, in whose business, and under
whose order, direction, and control, he is acting for
the time being. --Chitty.
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2. One in a state of subjection or bondage.
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Thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt. --Deut. v.
15.
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3. A professed lover or suitor; a gallant. [Obs.]
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In my time a servant was I one. --Chaucer.
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Servant of servants, one debased to the lowest condition of
servitude.
Your humble servant, or Your obedient servant, phrases of
civility formerly often used in closing a letter, now
archaic; -- at one time such phrases were exaggerated to
include Your most humble, most obedient servant.
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Our betters tell us they are our humble servants,
but understand us to be their slaves. --Swift.
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humble
(wn) | humble
adj 1: low or inferior in station or quality; "a humble
cottage"; "a lowly parish priest"; "a modest man of the
people"; "small beginnings" [syn: humble, low,
lowly, modest, small]
2: marked by meekness or modesty; not arrogant or prideful; "a
humble apology"; "essentially humble...and self-effacing, he
achieved the highest formal honors and distinctions"-
B.K.Malinowski [ant: proud]
3: used of unskilled work (especially domestic work) [syn:
humble, menial, lowly]
4: of low birth or station (`base' is archaic in this sense);
"baseborn wretches with dirty faces"; "of humble (or lowly)
birth" [syn: base, baseborn, humble, lowly]
v 1: cause to be unpretentious; "This experience will humble
him"
2: cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of; "He humiliated his
colleague by criticising him in front of the boss" [syn:
humiliate, mortify, chagrin, humble, abase] |
humble plant
(wn) | humble plant
n 1: prostrate or semi-erect subshrub of tropical America, and
Australia; heavily armed with recurved thorns and having
sensitive soft grey-green leaflets that fold and droop at
night or when touched or cooled [syn: sensitive plant,
touch-me-not, shame plant, live-and-die, {humble
plant}, action plant, Mimosa pudica] |
humblebee
(wn) | humblebee
n 1: robust hairy social bee of temperate regions [syn:
bumblebee, humblebee] |
humbled
(wn) | humbled
adj 1: subdued or brought low in condition or status; "brought
low"; "a broken man"; "his broken spirit" [syn: broken,
crushed, humbled, humiliated, low] |
humbleness
(wn) | humbleness
n 1: the state of being humble and unimportant [syn:
humbleness, unimportance, obscureness, lowliness]
2: a humble feeling; "he was filled with humility at the sight
of the Pope" [syn: humility, humbleness] [ant: pride,
pridefulness]
3: a disposition to be humble; a lack of false pride; "not
everyone regards humility as a virtue" [syn: humility,
humbleness] [ant: conceit, conceitedness, vanity] |
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