domestic servants
Live-in hired workers
Domestic servants are people employed to work in a private household—cleaning, cooking, caring for children, maintaining grounds.
The term covers a range of positions: maids, butlers, nannies, cooks, gardeners, housekeepers.
They kept a staff of domestic servants at the estate.
The phrase sounds formal or historical; modern usage often prefers specific job titles or simply "household staff."
- maidsHired household cleaners
- amahAsian domestic servant
- live-in helpResident domestic worker
- cookHeat food for eating
- chauffeurProfessional hired driver
hired help · housekeeper · gardener · governess · chambermaid · below stairs · butler · wet nurse · laundress · cleaning lady · steward · footman · valet · nanny · parlor maid · au pair · household staff · downstairs staff
- servantsbutler, maid, valet, maids, footman
- slaverychattel slavery, enslaved, slave, enslavement, slave traders
- domestic laborhousehold staff, housekeepers, maids, nannies, butlers
- Irish DiasporaIrish immigration, Irish Americans, Irish immigrants, Irish diaspora, emigration
- Irish immigrantsBoston Irish, steerage passengers
- haciendashacienda, estancia, finca, rancho, encomienda
domestic servantsmasters
Those with dominion
employers · lady of the house · lord of the manor · householders · slave owners
domestic servantsfamily members
Related persons collectively
kin · blood relatives · heirs · sons and daughters · residents
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