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# menial

«menial» in Mova's school dictionary: **dull, low and needs no special skill, such as cleaning…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (menial, more menial); noun (a menial, menials); old use as noun

### meaning for a pupil

Of work that is dull, low and needs no special skill, such as cleaning and scrubbing; a servant who does such work. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/menial/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

The "menial heroine" is the girl who does the dirty household jobs, as Cinderella does.

### examples

- She had to do the menial work of the house every day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/menial/#x1)
- Cleaning the grate was a menial task. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/menial/#x2)
- The king's menials swept the hall. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/menial/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

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