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Definition of Menial
1. Noun. A domestic servant.
2. Adjective. Used of unskilled work (especially domestic work).
Definition of Menial
1. a. Belonging to a retinue or train of servants; performing servile office; serving.
2. n. A domestic servant or retainer, esp. one of humble rank; one employed in low or servile offices.
Definition of Menial
1. Adjective. Of or relating to work normally performed by a servant. ¹
2. Adjective. Of or relating to unskilled work. ¹
3. Noun. A servant, especially a domestic servant. ¹
4. Noun. A person who has a subservient nature. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Menial
1. a domestic servant [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Menial
Literary usage of Menial
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Law of the Domestic Relations: Including Husband and Wife, Parent and by William Pinder Eversley (1906)
"The word " menial " is of wider import than the word " domestic," and includes
it.1 Every servant who at all times during the period of his service is under ..."
2. Commentaries on the Laws of England by William Blackstone, William Carey Jones (1915)
"menial servants.—The first sort of servants, therefore, acknowledged by the laws
of England, are menial servants; so called from being intra ..."
3. The Law of Baron and Femme: Of Parent and Child, Guardian and Ward, Master by Tapping Reeve, Amasa Junius Parker, Charles E. Baldwin (1882)
"menial servants are such as dwell in the family, and are employed about the
domestic concerns, the garden or farm, upon a contract of living with a master ..."
4. Hindu Castes and Sects: An Exposition of the Origin of the Hindu Caste by Jogendra Nath Bhattacharya (1896)
"6. Mas tan is—found in Orissa and Gujrat. Among the classes degraded by menial
service may be mentioned the following :— 2. ..."
5. Institutes of Common and Statute Law by John Barbee Minor (1876)
"menial Servants; WC lg. "Why they are so called. blood, shall lie deemed a ...
A. head-gardener is a menial servant, notwithstanding he is lodged in an ..."
6. Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms by Frederic Sturges Allen (1920)
"Referring to menial or moral character: high, lofty, gram), sublime, soaring,
empyreal (jiff.), grandiose, high-flown ..."
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