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server

nouncommon in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈsɜːvə//
  • United States//ˈsɝvɚ//

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

noun

  1. 1

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

  2. 2

    A computer dedicated to running such programs.

    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. 3

    A community space where only those who joined it can communicate in channels.

    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.

    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 [...]

    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.

  4. 4

    One who serves. A waitress or waiter.

  5. 5

    One who serves. The player who serves the ball.

  6. 6

    One who serves. A priest's attendant at the celebration of the Eucharist.

  7. 7

    A tray for dishes.

  8. 8

    A spoon for serving food.

Etymology

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

Forms

plural
servers
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).