1
: one that serves food or drink
2
: the player who serves (as in tennis)
3
: something used in serving food or drink
4
: one that serves legal processes upon another
5
: the celebrant's assistant at mass
6
: a computer in a network that is used to provide services (such as access to files or shared peripherals or the routing of email) to other computers in the network
Examples of server in a Sentence
She asked our server for another glass of wine.
we had barely finished ordering when the server brought our salads
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Michael Kan, PCMAG, 31 Jan. 2025
Apple’s suite runs on its own chips, either on the user’s device or on the company’s servers.
—Jonathan Vanian,jordan Novet,lora Kolodny,kif Leswing, CNBC, 28 Jan. 2025
Analysts have revisited the stock price target for Super Micro Computer, a leader in AI servers within the computer hardware sector.
—Quartz Intelligence Newsroom, Quartz, 28 Jan. 2025
In the Madeira Beach case, Weidner hired a process server in Kentucky to notify Szczygielski of the lawsuit.
—Ben Wieder, Miami Herald, 26 Jan. 2025
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“Server.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/server. Accessed 9 Feb. 2025.
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server
noun
serv·er
ˈsər-vər 
1
: a person who serves food or drink
2
: the player who puts a ball in play
3
: something (as a tray) used in serving food or drink
4
: a computer in a network that is used to provide services (as access to files or the delivery of email) to other computers
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