Definition of "serve" []

To work for. (verb-transitive)
To be a servant to. (verb-transitive)
To prepare and offer (food, for example): serve tea. (verb-transitive)
To place food before (someone); wait on: served the guests a wonderful dinner. (verb-transitive)
To provide goods and services for (customers): a hotel that has served tourists at the same location for 30 years. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "serve" in a sentence

"The fact that Bayut. com stood out amongst the crowd of websites competing for the title serve as a testament to its authority in the field."
"The only purpose this legislation seems to serve is to kick the bucket further down the road and in the mean time give democrats hope of creating a government sponsored enterprise in the form of the domestic automobile industry."
"In mixed doubles, the serve is always gender to gender at deuce (three points each)."

Words like "serve"

cater do work foster function

nurture operate ply provide

run served serves serving

supply

to serve a writ of attachment

to serve the hour

work