your servant

English

Etymology 1

Seemingly from I am your servant.

Noun

your servant (plural your servants)

1. (archaic) Used as a greeting, especially to a lady.
2. (archaic) Used as a closing of a personal letter.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:your servant.

Translations

archaic: greeting

• Finnish: palveluksessanne
• Hungarian: kezét csókolom (hu), (dated) alázatos szolgája, alászolgája (hu)

archaic: closing

• Finnish: Teidän (fi)

Etymology 2

Calque of Biblical Hebrew עַבְדְּךָ (ʿaḇdəḵā) and עַבְדְּכֶם (ʿaḇdəḵem)

Pronoun

your servant

1. (humble, archaic, chiefly in Bible translations) I, me

See also

• thy servant