Usually means: Subordinate or yielding to authority.
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General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. servient: Merriam-Webster
  2. servient: Collins English Dictionary
  3. servient: Wordnik
  4. servient: Wiktionary
  5. Servient: Dictionary.com
  6. Servient: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  7. servient: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  8. Servient: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  9. servient: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  10. servient: FreeDictionary.org
  11. Servient: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. servient: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  2. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  3. Servient: Legal dictionary

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▸ adjective:  (obsolete, law) subordinate

Similar:
subministrant, subordinate, obnoxious, vice, attendant, beneficiary, liegeful, subaltern, official, assistant, more...

Opposite:
dominant, independent, autonomous, self-governing

Types:
helpful, useful, subordinate, curt, obsequious, more...

Phrases:
servient tenement, servient estate, more...

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Similar:
subministrant, subordinate, obnoxious, vice, attendant, beneficiary, liegeful, subaltern, official, assistant, more...

Opposite:
dominant, independent, autonomous, self-governing

Types:
helpful, useful, subordinate, curt, obsequious, more...

Phrases:
servient tenement, servient estate, more...



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