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# butler

noun (a butler, butlers)

«butler» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/butler/#m1)
2. Butler is also a surname. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/butler/#m2)

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

In Pharaoh's court, the butler was the officer who served the king's wine and cup. The chief butler was in prison with Joseph.

**Interpretation.** The rabbis said the butler's forgetting Joseph meant Joseph had to wait two more years, because he had trusted a man instead of God.

### Examples

- Yet did not the chief butler remember Joseph, but forgot him. (Torah GEN.40.23, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/butler/#x1)
- Then spoke the chief butler unto Pharaoh, saying: 'I make mention of my faults this day: (Torah GEN.41.9, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/butler/#x2)
- And he restored the chief butler back unto his butlership; and he gave the cup into Pharaoh's hand. (Torah GEN.40.21, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/butler/#x3)

### Note

Few homes have butlers today. A woman in charge of the servants was usually a «housekeeper».

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «butler» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/butler/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«butler» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/butler.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «butler» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/butler/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«butler» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/butler.html) on Mova free.