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# menial

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

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

## Everyday

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

### 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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/menial/#x1)
- Cleaning the grate was a menial task. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/menial/#x2)
- The king's menials swept the hall. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/menial/#x3)

### Note

nothing for maths

## On Mova

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