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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The engineer who works through the night when the servers are down.
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Ryan Wong, Forbes.com, 11 Apr. 2025
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There were hundreds of reports of users experiencing issues with Electronic Arts (EA) servers early on Wednesday morning, according to Downdetector.
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Ryan Wong, Forbes.com, 11 Apr. 2025
One potential way China continues to receive Nvidia chips is inside server computers initially shipped to countries not subject to export restrictions, such as those in Southeast Asia.
—Bloomberg News, Mercury News, 11 Apr. 2025
There were hundreds of reports of users experiencing issues with Electronic Arts (EA) servers early on Wednesday morning, according to Downdetector.
—Raja Krishnamoorthi, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Apr. 2025
Developers will be able to leverage Ironwood in two different configurations: a 256-chip server or the full-size 9,216-chip cluster.
—ArsTechnica, 9 Apr. 2025
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“Server.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/server. Accessed 20 Apr. 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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