Usually means: Servant managing household, assisting residents.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. Butler, butler: Merriam-Webster
  2. butler: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. butler: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. butler: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Butler, butler: Vocabulary.com
  6. Butler, butler: Wordnik
  7. butler: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Butler, butler: Wiktionary
  9. butler: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. butler: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. butler: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Butler, butler: Dictionary.com
  13. butler: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. butler: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Butler (basketball), Butler (disambiguation), Butler (software), Butler (surname), Butler, The Butler: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Butler: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. butler: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. butler: Rhymezone
  19. butler, butler (de): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. butler: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. butler: FreeDictionary.org
  22. butler: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. Butler: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. Butler: World Wide Words
  25. butler: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. Butler (servant), Butler: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. butler: Idioms

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Butler: Easton Bible
  2. Butler: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Butler: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  2. Butler: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Butler)

noun:  A manservant having charge of wines and liquors.
noun:  The chief male servant of a household who has charge of other employees, receives guests, directs the serving of meals, and performs various personal services.
noun:  A valet, a male personal attendant.
verb:  To buttle, to dispense wines or liquors; to take the place of a butler.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  An English and Irish surname from Middle English [in turn originating as an occupation], for someone who was a butler or wine servant.
noun:  An Anglicized form of the French Boutilier, Boutillier, Bouthillier surname from French of similar derivation.
noun:  A male given name.
noun:  A placename:
noun:  A location in the United States of America:
noun:  A town, the county seat of Choctaw County, Alabama.
noun:  A locality in Mohave County, Arizona.
noun:  A ghost town in Fresno County, California.
noun:  A small city, the county seat of Taylor County, Georgia.
noun:  A small village in Montgomery County, Illinois.
noun:  A small city in DeKalb County, Indiana.
noun:  A home rule city in Pendleton County, Kentucky.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Baltimore County, Maryland.
noun:  A city, the county seat of Bates County, Missouri.
noun:  A borough of Morris County, New Jersey.
noun:  A town in Wayne County, New York.
noun:  A village in Richland County, Ohio.
noun:  A town in Custer County, Oklahoma.
noun:  A census-designated place in Delaware County, Oklahoma.
noun:  A city, the county seat of Butler County, Pennsylvania.
noun:  A tiny town in Day County, South Dakota.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Johnson County, Tennessee.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Freestone County, Texas.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Bastrop County, Texas.
noun:  A small town in Clark County, Wisconsin.
noun:  A village in Waukesha County, Wisconsin.
noun:  A number of townships in the United States, listed under Butler Township.
noun:  A location in Canada
noun:  An unincorporated community in Manitoba, Canada.
noun:  A location in Australia:
noun:  A locality in South Australia.
noun:  An outer suburb of Perth, Western Australia.
noun:  Ellipsis of Butler County. [One of 67 counties in Alabama, United States. County seat: Greenville. Named after William Butler.]
noun:  Ellipsis of Butler River.

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