server

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)

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.

3. 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

4. A tray for dishes.

   Synonym: salver

5. A spoon for serving food.

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

• → Danish: 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
• → 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) [sərˈbe]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [sərˈve]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [seɾˈveɾ]

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)

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 Det Norske Akademis ordbok (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 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 [Term?], 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