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From Middle English servere, equivalent to serve +‎ -er.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈsɜːvə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈsɝvɚ/

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• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)və(ɹ)
• Hyphenation: serv‧er

server (plural servers)

2. (computing) A program that provides services to other programs or devices, either in the same computer or over a computer network.

   Antonym: client

4. (computing) A computer dedicated to running such programs.
   • 2013 June 14, Jonathan Freedland, “Obama's once hip brand is now tainted”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 1, page 18:

     Now we are liberal with our innermost secrets, spraying them into the public ether with a generosity our forebears could not have imagined. Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet.

6. (social media) A community space where only those who joined it can communicate in channels.
   • 2020 August 11, EasyCompZeeland, “My server is changing the admin name and doesn’t store any created channels… out of the blue”, in Official TeamSpeak Community Forum‎^[1], archived from the original on 11 September 2024, TeamSpeak Server:

     Please take a look at my log its completely going haywire… My server is changing the admin name and doesn’t store any created channels.

   • 2020, “Beginner's Guide to Discord”, in Discord Help Center‎^[2]:

     Discord gives you the power to create an invite-only home for your friends or community - a place where you can talk, hang out, and have fun. We call these special places - servers [...]

   • 2024 June 30, u/Narunzo, “I can't find a decent place where I can post a suggestion and it would be seen by staff in Guilded so I'm posting my suggestion here”, in r/guilded‎^[3] (Reddit post):

     Basically like how there is an emoji button for statuses and bios but make them for certain settings such as channel names or descriptions. This little QOL(quality of life) change would add a slightly faster way of navigating through channels and add a nicer more organized appearance to some servers.

7. One who serves.
   1. A waitress or waiter.
   2. (tennis, volleyball) The player who serves the ball.
   3. (Christianity) A priest's attendant at the celebration of the Eucharist.

      Synonyms: altar server, acolyte

8. A tray for dishes.

   Synonym: salver

9. A spoon for serving food.

• (one who serves): Some prefer server to waiter or waitress because it is gender-neutral.

• (waiter): wine server

• server on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• server (computing) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• altar server on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• revers, verser

From serva +‎ -er.

• IPA^(key): (Northern) [sərˈbe̞]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [sərˈve]
• IPA^(key): (Central) [sərˈbe]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [seɾˈveɾ]
• IPA^(key): (Northwestern) [serˈbe]

server m (plural servers)

1. serviceberry, Sorbus domestica (tree)

• severola

• “server”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

From English server.

server

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese, computing) server (Classifier: 個／个 c; 部 c)

• (clipping) ser (soe1)

From English server.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsʏrvər/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: ser‧ver

server m (plural servers, diminutive servertje n)

1. (computing) server (a computer or software that provides services to other programs or users)

• “server” in Woordenlijst Nederlandse Taal – Officiële Spelling, Nederlandse Taalunie. [the official spelling word list for the Dutch language]
• server on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^nl

• revers, verser

Borrowed from English server.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛr.ver/^[1]
• Rhymes: -ɛrver
• Hyphenation: sèr‧ver

server m (invariable)

1. (computing) server (a computer or software that provides services to other programs or users)

server

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of servō

From English server.

• sørver

server m (definite singular serveren, indefinite plural servere, definite plural serverne)

1. (computing) a server

From English server. Akin to serve +‎ -er.

• sørver

server m (definite singular serveren, indefinite plural servere, definite plural serverne)

1. (tennis) the player who serves the ball

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• server

server

1. imperative of servere

• “server” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “server” in Norwegian Academy Dictionary (NAOB).

• verser

From English server.

• sørvar

server m (definite singular serveren, indefinite plural serverar, definite plural serverane)

1. (computing) a server
2. (tennis) the player who serves the ball

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• servér

server

1. imperative of servera

• “server” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• verser

Unadapted borrowing from English server.

server m (plural servers)

1. (computing, social media) a server

   Synonym: servidor

   • 2013, Felipe Castilho, Ouro, Fogo e Megabytes, Gutenberg, →ISBN, page 80:

     O server da Hawkwind reconheceria os códigos desonestos e daria um belo de um kick no traseiro gordo do Esmagossauro, ou de qualquer player que ousasse ser desonesto na rede.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Unadapted borrowing from English server.

server n (plural servere)

1. (computing) server

• “server”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2026

• sérver

Unadapted borrowing from English server.

• IPA^(key): /ˈseɾbeɾ/ [ˈseɾ.β̞eɾ]
• Rhymes: -eɾbeɾ
• Syllabification: ser‧ver

server m (plural servers)

1. (computing, social media) a server

   Synonym: servidor

server c

1. (computing) a server

• reserv, verser

• IPA^(key): /sæɾˈvæɾ/
• Hyphenation: ser‧ver

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish سرور, from Persian سَروَر (sarvar).

server (definite accusative serveri, plural serverler)

1. (archaic) master

• serverlik

• serveran

Unadapted borrowing from English server.

server (definite accusative serveri, plural serverler)

1. (computing) server

   Synonym: sunucu

• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “server”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Ayverdi, İlhan (2010), “server”, in Misalli Büyük Türkçe Sözlük, a reviewed and expanded single-volume edition, Istanbul: Kubbealtı Neşriyatı