n. One who serves or attends; a subordinate; a follower; an adherent.n. Specificallyn. A male domestic servant; a menial.n. (b ) One who serves in the army; a soldier.n. Formerly, at Oxford University, an undergraduate who was partly supported by the college funds, who was distinguished by peculiar dress, and whose duty it was to wait at table on the fellows and gentlemen commoners. This class of scholars no longer exists, and practically has not existed for a century. The statement of Thackeray below is inexact, inasmuch as the Oxford servitors did not correspond to the Cambridge sizars, but to the subsizars.n. (d ) One who professes duty or service: formerly used in phrases of civility.