server

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

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

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Audio (Canada):

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• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)və(ɹ)

server (plural servers)

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

   Antonym: client

2. (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.

4. (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, 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:

     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, 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 Reddit‎, r/guilded:

     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.

5. 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

6. A tray for dishes.

   Synonym: salver

7. A spoon for serving food.

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

• → Danish: server
• → Dutch: server
• → German: Server
• → Hindi: सर्वर (sarvar)
• → Hungarian: szerver
• → Italian: server m
• → Japanese: サーバー (sābā)
• → Korean: 서버 (seobeo)
• → Norwegian Bokmål: server, sørver
• → Norwegian Nynorsk: server, sørvar
• → Persian: سرور
• → Polish: serwer
• → Portuguese: server
• → Romanian: server n
• → Russian: се́рвер (sérver)
• → Thai: เซิร์ฟเวอร์ (sə́əp-wə̂ə)
• → Turkish: server

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

• revers, verser

From serva +‎ -er.

• IPA^(key): (Central)
• IPA^(key): (Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencia)

server m (plural servers)

1. serviceberry, Sorbus domestica (tree)

• severola

• “server” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

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.
• server on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^nl

• revers, verser

Italian Wikipedia has an article on:

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Wikipedia ^it

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

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

1. (computing) a server

From English server. Akin to serve +‎ -er.

• sørver

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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

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server

1. imperative of servere

• “server” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “server” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

• verser

From English server.

• sørvar

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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

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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

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)

server c

1. (computing) a server

• reserv, verser

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

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

server (definite accusative serveri, plural serverler)

1. 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