FOOTMAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does footman mean? 

• FOOTMAN (noun)
  The noun FOOTMAN has 1 sense:

1. a man employed as a servant in a large establishment (as a palace) to run errands and do chores

  Familiarity information: FOOTMAN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FOOTMAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A man employed as a servant in a large establishment (as a palace) to run errands and do chores

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("footman" is a kind of...):

manservant (a man servant)

 Context examples 

"She's ready now," said the footman, as he reappeared.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Mrs. Bennet was prevented replying by the entrance of the footman with a note for Miss Bennet; it came from Netherfield, and the servant waited for an answer.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

I could force nothing on him but a footman’s tooth, which I observed him to examine with great curiosity, and found he had a fancy for it.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

I happen to know that he paid seven hundred pounds to a footman for a note two lines in length, and that the ruin of a noble family was the result.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was only after a painful and prolonged scene that she was ejected by the butler and the footman.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It made me start as much as if it had been the knock of a footman to a person of distinction.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The footman came at the summons, very white and nervous.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

But straightway they all plunged into politics, varied by the drinking of sweet maraschino, which a footman brought round upon a salver.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"Has no letter been left here for me since we went out?" said she to the footman who then entered with the parcels.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

On and on they pushed past the endless lines of tents, amid the dense swarms of horsemen and of footmen, until the huge royal pavilion stretched in front of them.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)