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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/butler/#m1)

2) Butler is also a surname. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/butler/#m2)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/butler/#x1)
- In the old house, the butler served dinner. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/butler/#x2)
- Everyone in the mystery suspected the butler. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/butler/#x3)
- The butler polished all the silver. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/butler/#x4)
- Batman's butler is called Alfred. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/butler/#x5)
- The family no longer had a butler. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/butler/#x6)
- Then, clapping her hands, she summoned the chief butler. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/butler/#x7)

### 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!](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/68-willows-ch11-part4-the-secret-passage/6/)
- [They come to a trap-door, push it up together and climb into the butler's pantry.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/70-willows-ch12-part1-the-secret-passage-at-night/9/)
- [And Pharaoh was wroth against his two officers, against the chief of the butlers, and against the chief of the bakers.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1275/)
- [And he restored the chief butler back unto his butlership; and he gave the cup into Pharaoh's hand.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1294/)
- [Yet did not the chief butler remember Joseph, but forgot him.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1296/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «butler» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/butler/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.