noun
manservant; valet; male attendant
Formal or literary term for a male servant, often in a historical or upper-class context. Not used in everyday modern conversation.
彼は伯爵家の従僕として仕えていた。
He served as a manservant to the count's family.
Compound of 従 (follow, attend) and 僕 (servant, I/me). The exact historical derivation is uncertain, but the spelling is conventionally associated with the meaning of a male attendant.