MENIALS Synonyms: 48 Similar and Opposite Words

menials

noun

plural of menial

as in servants

a person hired to perform household or personal services immigrants to that country faced fierce prejudice and could expect to find work only as menials

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servants

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Banks paid millions of dollars by today’s standards to bring along a botanist, artists, servants, his greyhound and scientific equipment.

— Saar Shahar, The Conversation, 12 Oct. 2026
The remains of these servants, or retainers, were first excavated from the funerary complexes at Abydos, eastern Egypt, which date from around 3000 BC, in the 1920s.

— Jack Guy, CNN Money, 7 Oct. 2026

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