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A manservant is a male servant, especially a man’s personal servant: the person who laid out clothes, packed cases, and looked after a gentleman’s daily needs. You meet the word in older novels and period drama. It is old-fashioned now; job ads do not say manservant. Though actually, it was never just “any man who serves.” It named a household role, often close and personal, closer to what later centuries called a valet than to a waiter in a café. Today we would name the job more narrowly, or just say assistant. Using it about a living person can sound like a joke, or like you are stuck in a costume drama.
男僕、貼身男侍（舊時用語）
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
manservantnoun/ˈmænˌsɜː(ɹ)vənt/
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A male servant.
- I asked my manservant to attend to the washing and cleaning.
- Sixe dayes thou ſhalt labour, and doe all thy worke. But the ſeuenth day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou ſhalt not doe any worke, thou, nor thy ſonne, nor thy daughter, nor thy man ſeruant, nor thy maid ſeruant, nor thine oxe, nor thine aſſe, nor any of thy cattel, nor thy ſtranger that is within thy gates, that thy man ſeruant and thy maid ſeruant may reſt as well as thou.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。