HOUSEBOY Synonyms: 49 Similar and Opposite Words

houseboy

noun

Definition of houseboy

as in butler

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Recent Examples of houseboy The pilot featured Charles Levin as Coco, a gay houseboy. — Marc Berman, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2025 Collins is playing Skip, the houseboy in the estate where the play takes place. — Myrna Petlicki, Chicago Tribune, 5 Dec. 2022 The older man then offers Casey a thankless live-in position as houseboy and party plaything, basically stripping him of every last shred of dignity. — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 June 2022 Police arrested the only one left alive on the property — a 19-year-old houseboy. — Los Angeles Times, 28 July 2019 Naomi Campbell was Scarlett O’Hara, Manolo Blahnik was a gardener or barefoot field hand, and John Galliano was a houseboy, photographed scrubbing the floor! — André Leon Talley, Vogue, 19 Feb. 2019

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Noun

Each has about six acres of garden and comes with a household of staff (your own butler, house manager, and chef).

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2026
And Britain itself, after the financial and cultural boom of the ’90s, has in the post-recession era settled into its new role as butler to the world, to borrow a phrase from writer and money-laundering muckraker Oliver Bullough.

— Eliza Goodpasture, ARTnews.com, 5 Oct. 2026

Definition of butler

Noun

The Your Friends and Neighbors star plays a character named Lee, Adam’s Chinese American manservant, in East of Eden.

— Chris Murphy, Vanity Fair, 30 Sep. 2026
The only person who knows Diego’s secret is Bernardo (Salvatore Ficarra), his mute manservant.

— Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 30 June 2026

Definition of manservant

Noun

Garcia has held various positions at the restaurant and hotel, working his way up from a hotel houseman to a waiter at the restaurant and now a manager.

— Janelle Griffith, PEOPLE, 10 Aug. 2026
The 25-year-old earned around $28 an hour as a night houseman on the evening shift at Omni Boston Hotel at the Seaport.

— Melanie Stetson Freeman, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Feb. 2025

Definition of houseman

Noun

This is the kind of show where an opulent tea party is dramatized not just by many different plates of fancy pastries, fancy wreaths and lots of furniture, but by having all that stuff carted in by a dozen or so butlers, maids and other servants.

— Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 1 Oct. 2026
Loyal Maids in Extravagant Mansions While Solana is a disorderly servant, Clarita reflects the trope of the loyal maid of the higher class, the societal expectation in the region.

— Damaly Gonzalez, ARTnews.com, 30 Sep. 2026

Definition of servant

Noun

Insider tip Bring (or rent) a car and use the speedy on-site valet which will whisk your vehicle in and out for adventures beyond the city center.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2026
Minutes after the victim retrieved her vehicle from the valet and left, the report said, Brown’s vehicle was seen leaving a nearby parking garage.

— Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 3 Oct. 2026

Definition of valet

Noun

The second slide was a video (without sound) of the couple’s first kiss, which King prefaced with what looked like a howl of joy, followed by a series of passionate kisses and an arms-in-the-air yelp from the groom.

— Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 5 Oct. 2026
When the bride and groom connected ahead of the ceremony for a first look, the true purpose of the day came into picture.

— Shelby Wax, Vogue, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of groom

Noun

The king and queen always face the direction of travel and will exit first; their guests face the footmen and will exit after the monarchs.

— Guy Martin, Forbes.com, 19 June 2026
There’s a moment when a former general upbraids a footman for not wearing gloves to serve food.

— Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 22 May 2026

Definition of footman

Noun

Everyone from the front-desk employees to the housekeepers to the yoga instructors were helpful and attentive.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2026
By tightening those subplots, the series focuses more by design on exploring the inner lives of Cathy, Adam and Lee (Hoon Lee) — the Trask’s cook and housekeeper who becomes a second parent of sorts to Charles’ twin boys, Cal and Aron.

— Max Gao, Variety, 4 Oct. 2026

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