server

See also: Server

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (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)
• Hyphenation: serv‧er

Noun

server (plural servers)

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

   Antonym: client

4. (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.

6. (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.

7. 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

8. A tray for dishes.

   Synonym: salver

9. A spoon for serving food.

Usage notes

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

Hyponyms

• anarchy server
• data structure server
• dedicated server
• deskside server
• fileserver
• microserver
• miniserver
• pedestal server
• physical server
• server computer
• shared server
• stand-alone server
• stand-alone Web server
• timeserver, time-server
• virtual private server
• virtual server
• Web server
• wine server

Derived terms

• blade server
• cake server
• client-server
• cross-server
• distribution server
• DNS server
• domain name server
• eye-server
• file server
• jump server
• key server
• language server
• lip-server
• mirror server journal
• name server
• open proxy server
• pie server
• preprint server
• print server
• process server
• proxy server
• server farm
• serverless
• server-only
• server push
• server-side
• server-side rendering
• server-side storage
• streaming server
• web server

Descendants

• → 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

Translations

computing: a program which provides services to other programs or users

Albanian: server m Arabic: خَادُوم m (ḵādūm), حَاسِب خَادِم m (ḥāsib ḵādim), خَادِم m (ḵādim), مُلَقِّم m (mulaqqim) (dated), مُخَدِّم m (muḵaddim) Armenian: սպասարկիչ (spasarkičʻ) Azerbaijani: server Belarusian: се́рвер m (sjérvjer), сэ́рвэр m (sérver) Bengali: সার্ভার (śarbhar) Bulgarian: съ́рвър m (sǎ́rvǎr) Burmese: ဆာဗာ (hcaba), ဆာဗိုစနစ် (hcabuica.nac) Chinese: Cantonese: 服務器 / 服务器 (fuk6 mou6 hei3), 伺服器 (si6 fuk6 hei3) Mandarin: 服務器 / 服务器 (zh) (fúwùqì), 伺服器 (zh) (sìfúqì) Czech: server (cs) m Danish: server (da) c Dutch: server (nl) m Esperanto: servilo (eo) Estonian: server (et) Finnish: palvelin (fi), palvelinohjelma French: serveur (fr) m Galician: servidor (gl) m Georgian: სერვერი (serveri) German: Server (de) m Greek: εξυπηρετητής (el) m (exypiretitís) Hebrew: שָׁרָת (he) m (sharát) Hindi: सर्वर m (sarvar) Hungarian: szerver (hu) Icelandic: miðlari (is) m Indonesian: peladen (id) Italian: server (it) m Japanese: サーバー (ja) (sābā) Kazakh: сервер (server) Khmer: ម៉ាស៊ីនមេ (maasiin mei) Korean: 서버 (ko) (seobeo), 봉사기(奉仕器) (bongsagi) (North Korea) Kyrgyz: сервер (server) Lao: please add this translation if you can Latvian: serveris m Lithuanian: serveris (lt) m Macedonian: сервер m (server), опслужувач m (opslužuvač) Malay: pelayan (ms) Maori: tūmau Mongolian: Cyrillic: сервер (server) Norwegian: Bokmål: tjener (no) m, server m Nynorsk: tenar m, server m Occitan: servidor (oc) m Persian: Iranian Persian: سِرْوِر (server), کارساز (fa) (kârsâz) Polish: serwer (pl) m Portuguese: servidor (pt) m, server (pt) m Romanian: server n Russian: се́рвер (ru) m (sérver) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: се̏рвер m Roman: sȅrver (sh) m Slovak: server m Slovene: strežnik (sl) m Spanish: servidor (es) m Swedish: server (sv) c, värddator (sv) c Tajik: сервер (server) Thai: เซิร์ฟเวอร์ (sə́əp-wə̂ə) Turkish: sunucu (tr), server (tr) Turkmen: serwer Ukrainian: се́рвер m (sérver) Urdu: سَرْوَر (ur) m (sarvar) Uzbek: server (uz) Vietnamese: trình chủ, máy chủ (vi), máy phục vụ

computing: a computer dedicated to running server programs

Arabic: خَادِم m (ḵādim) Armenian: սպասարկիչ (spasarkičʻ), սերվեր (hy) (server) Bulgarian: сървър m (sǎrvǎr) Catalan: servidor (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 服務器 / 服务器 (zh) (fúwùqì), 伺服器 (zh) (sìfúqì) Dutch: server (nl) m Faroese: ambætari m Finnish: palvelin (fi), palvelinkone Galician: servidor (gl) m German: Server (de) m Greek: εξυπηρετητής (el) m (exypiretitís) Japanese: サーバー (ja) (sābā) Korean: 서버 (ko) (seobeo) Latin: minster Malay: pelayan (ms) Norwegian: Bokmål: tjenermaskin m Nynorsk: tenarmaskin m or f Persian: Iranian Persian: سِرْوِر (server) Polish: serwer (pl) m Portuguese: servidor (pt) m, server (pt) m Romanian: server n Russian: се́рвер (ru) m (sérver) Spanish: servidor (es) m Thai: เซิร์ฟเวอร์ (sə́əp-wə̂ə) Turkish: sunucu (tr), server (tr) Ukrainian: се́рвер m (sérver) Vietnamese: máy chủ (vi)

one who serves

Arabic: خَادِم m (ḵādim), خَادِمَة f (ḵādimah) Armenian: սպասարկող (spasarkoġ), սպասավոր (hy) (spasavor) Bulgarian: сервитьо́р m (servitjór), сервитьо́рка (bg) f (servitjórka) Dutch: serveerder m, serveerster (nl) f Finnish: palvelija (fi), tarjoilija (fi) French: serviteur (fr) m, serviteuse (fr) f, serviteresse (fr) (religion), servante (fr) f German: Diener (de) m, Dienerin (de) f Greek: σερβιτόρος (el) m (servitóros), υπηρέτης (el) m (ypirétis), υπηρέτρια (el) f (ypirétria) Ancient: ὑπηρέτης m (hupērétēs), ὑπηρέτρια f (hupērétria) Haitian Creole: sèvitè Hebrew: שרת (he) m, מלצר (he) m Italian: servente (it) m or f Low German: German Low German: Dener m, Denerin f, Denersch f, Denersche f Norwegian: Bokmål: servivør m Nynorsk: servitør m Persian: Iranian Persian: پیشْخِدْمَت (pišxedmat) Polish: kelner (pl) m, kelnerka (pl) f Portuguese: servidor (pt) m Russian: служи́тель (ru) m (služítelʹ), служи́тельница (ru) f (služítelʹnica), официа́нт (ru) m (oficiánt) (waiter), официа́нтка (ru) f (oficiántka) (waitress) Spanish: sirviente (es) m or f, servidor (es) m, (please verify) servidriz f Swedish: betjänt (sv) c, servitör (sv) c Turkish: hizmetçi (tr)

preferred unisex term for a waitress or waiter

Dutch: bediening (nl) f Finnish: tarjoilija (fi) Galician: camareiro (gl) m, camareira f German: Bedienung (de) f Ingrian: taritsija Latin: minister Norman: sèrveux m (Jersey) Norwegian: Bokmål: serveringspersonell n Nynorsk: serveringsperonell n Swedish: personal (sv) c, serveringspersonal c Turkish: hizmetçi (tr)

a tray for dishes

Armenian: սկուտեղ (hy) (skuteġ) Bulgarian: по́днос (bg) m (pódnos) Dutch: dienblad (nl) n Finnish: tarjotin (fi) Greek: δίσκος (el) m (dískos) Japanese: サーバー (ja) (sābā) Russian: подно́с (ru) m (podnós) Swedish: bricka (sv) c

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

Arabic: (please verify) نَادِل m (nādil), (please verify) خَادِم m (ḵādim) French: (please verify) serveur (fr) m Icelandic: (please verify) miðlari (is) m, (please verify) netþjónn m Irish: (please verify) riarthóir m Italian: (please verify) server (it) m, (please verify) servente (it) m, (please verify) servitore (it) m Malay: (please verify) pelayan (ms), (please verify) server Norman: (please verify) sèrveux m (Jersey) Norwegian: Bokmål: (please verify) tjener (no) m Nynorsk: (please verify) tenar m Swedish: (please verify) server (sv) c Turkish: (please verify) sunucu (tr)

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• revers, verser

Catalan

Etymology

From serva +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [sərˈbe]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [sərˈve]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [seɾˈveɾ]

Noun

server m (plural servers)

1. serviceberry, Sorbus domestica (tree)

Derived terms

• severola

Further reading

• “server”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

Chinese

Etymology

From English server.

Pronunciation

• Cantonese (Jyutping): soe¹ faa²

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: soe¹ faa²
    • Yale: sēu fá
    • Cantonese Pinyin: soe¹ faa²
    • Guangdong Romanization: sê¹ fa²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sœː⁵⁵ faː³⁵/

Noun

server

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese, computing) server (Classifier: 個／个 c; 部 c)

See also

• (clipping) ser (soe1)

Dutch

Etymology

From English server.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsʏrvər/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: ser‧ver

Noun

server m (plural servers, diminutive servertje n)

1. (computing) server (a computer or software that provides services to other programs or users)

Derived terms

• bestandsserver
• fileserver
• internetserver
• mailserver
• nieuwsserver
• printserver
• proxyserver
• webserver

Further reading

• “server” in Woordenlijst Nederlandse Taal – Officiële Spelling, Nederlandse Taalunie. [the official spelling word list for the Dutch language]
• server on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^nl

Anagrams

• revers, verser