Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: footman
IPA transcription: [f'ʊtmən]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: footman
    Meaning: a man employed as a servant in a large establishment (as a palace) to run errands and do chores
Usage examples
  • He was sitting on a chair, and a footman was pulling off his warm over-boot.
  • 'I shall never be a footman,' he was asserting; 'I couldn't keep my legs so stiff.
  • The footman placed in her hand a little box "with Madame du Launy's compliments," he said.
  • Whereupon the footman disappeared, reappeared presenting Sloppy, and retired much disgusted.
  • Toward one that night, his footman ran to knock me up with the news that Peters was very ill.
  • Wait till the majesty of Death Invests so mean a brow! Almost a powdered footman Might dare to touch it now!
  • He was not long in hearing of Kit, who had found a situation as footman, and he gained his employer's leave to take the lad with him.
  • A footman appeared, to whom she gravely added: "If Mr. van der Luyden has finished reading the newspaper, please ask him to be kind enough to come."
  • Here the footman whose feelings had been hurt on the former occasion, appeared, and crossing to Rokesmith apologetically announced the objectionable Sloppy.
  • "--to see me some afternoon," Mrs. Van Degen ended, going down the steps to her motor, at the door of which a much-furred footman waited with more furs on his arm.