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Definition of Serve

Serve To work for; to labor in behalf of; to exert one's self continuously or statedly for the benefit of; to do service for; to be in the employment of, as an inferior, domestic, serf, slave, hired assistant, official helper, etc.; specifically, in a religious sense, to obey and worship. To be subordinate to; to act a secondary part under; to appear as the inferior of; to minister to. To be suitor to; to profess love to. To wait upon; to supply the wants of; to attend; specifically, to wait upon at table; to attend at meals; to supply with food; as, to serve customers in a shop. Hence, to bring forward, arrange, deal, or distribute, as a portion of anything, especially of food prepared for eating; -- often with up; formerly with in. To perform the duties belonging to, or required in or for; hence, to be of use to; as, a curate may serve two churches; to serve one's country. To contribute or conduce to; to promote; to be sufficient for; to satisfy; as, to serve one's turn. To answer or be (in the place of something) to; as, a sofa serves one for a seat and a couch. To treat; to behave one's self to; to requite; to act toward; as, he served me very ill. To work; to operate; as, to serve the guns. To bring to notice, deliver, or execute, either actually or constructively, in such manner as the law requires; as, to serve a summons. To make legal service opon (a person named in a writ, summons, etc.); as, to serve a witness with a subp/na. To pass or spend, as time, esp. time of punishment; as, to serve a term in prison. To copulate with; to cover; as, a horse serves a mare; -- said of the male. To lead off in delivering (the ball). To wind spun yarn, or the like, tightly around (a rope or cable, etc.) so as to protect it from chafing or from the weather. See under Serving. To be a servant or a slave; to be employed in labor or other business for another; to be in subjection or bondage; to render menial service. To perform domestic offices; to be occupied with household affairs; to prepare and dish up food, etc. To be in service; to do duty; to discharge the requirements of an office or employment. Specifically, to act in the public service, as a soldier, seaman. etc. To be of use; to answer a purpose; to suffice; to suit; to be convenient or favorable. To lead off in delivering the ball. Related Definitions: Act, Actually, An, And, Another, Answer, Anything, Appear, Around, Arrange, As, Assistant, At, Attend, Ball, Be, Behalf, Behave, Belonging, Benefit, Bondage, Bring, Business, Cable, Chafing, Conduce, Constructively, Continuously, Contribute, Convenient, Copulate, Couch, Country, Cover, Curate, Deal, Deliver, Delivering, Discharge, Dish, Distribute, Do, Domestic, Duties, Duty, Eating, Either, Employed, Employment, Especially, Execute, Exert, Favorable, Food, For, Formerly, Forward, From, He, Helper, Hence, Hired, Horse, Household, Ill, In, Inferior, It, Labor, Law, Lead, Legal, Like, Love, Make, Male, Manner, Mare, May, Me, Menial, Minister, Na, Named, Notice, Obey, Occupied, Of, Off, Office, Official, Often, One, Operate, Or, Other, Part, Pass, Perform, Person, Place, Portion, Prepare, Prepared, Prison, Profess, Promote, Protect, Public, Punishment, Purpose, Religious, Render, Required, Requite, Rope, Said, Satisfy, Seaman, Seat, Secondary, See, Self, Sense, Serf, Servant, Serve, Served, Service, Serving, Shop, Slave, So, Sofa, Soldier, Something, Specifically, Spend, Spun, Statedly, Subjection, Subordinate, Such, Suffice, Sufficient, Suit, Suitor, Summons, Supply, Table, Term, The, Tightly, Time, To, Toward, Treat, Turn, Two, Under, Up, Upon, Use, Very, Wait, Weather, Wind, With, Witness, Work, Worship, Writ, Yarn

Serve Quotations I continued to serve in Congress until 2001. David Minge Buildings should serve people, not the other way around. John Portman The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule. Albert Einstein You kind of live and die by the serve. Pete Sampras The only way you can serve God is by serving other people. Rick Warren

Serve Translations serve in Afrikaans is voorsit, bedien serve in Danish is tjene, servere serve in Dutch is voorleggen, serveren serve in French is servir, servez, sers, servent, servons serve in German is dienen, aufschlagen, bedienen, servieren serve in Italian is servire, servire, servire serve in Latin is excolo, commodo, servio, appono, inservio serve in Portuguese is saque, servir

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