Definition of served

"served" in the verb sense

1. serve, function

serve a purpose, role, or function

"The tree stump serves as a table"

"The female students served as a control group"

"This table would serve very well"

"His freedom served him well"

"The table functions as a desk"

2. serve

do duty or hold offices serve in a specific function

"He served as head of the department for three years"

"She served in Congress for two terms"

3. serve

contribute or conduce to

"The scandal served to increase his popularity"

4. service, serve

be used by as of a utility

"The sewage plant served the neighboring communities"

"The garage served to shelter his horses"

5. serve, help

help to some food help with food or drink

"I served him three times, and after that he helped himself"

6. serve, serve up, dish out, dish up, dish

provide (usually but not necessarily food

"We serve meals for the homeless"

"She dished out the soup at 8 P.M."

"The entertainers served up a lively show"

7. serve

devote (part of) one's life or efforts to, as of countries, institutions, or ideas

"She served the art of music"

"He served the church"

"serve the country"

8. serve, serve well

promote, benefit, or be useful or beneficial to

"Art serves commerce"

"Their interests are served"

"The lake serves recreation"

"The President's wisdom has served the country well"

9. serve, do

spend time in prison or in a labor camp

"He did six years for embezzlement"

10. serve, attend to, wait on, attend, assist

work for or be a servant to

"May I serve you?"

"She attends the old lady in the wheelchair"

"Can you wait on our table, please?"

"Is a salesperson assisting you?"

"The minister served the King for many years"

11. serve, process, swear out

deliver a warrant or summons to someone

"He was processed by the sheriff"

12. suffice, do, answer, serve

be sufficient be adequate, either in quality or quantity

"A few words would answer"

"This car suits my purpose well"

"Will $100 do?"

"A `B' grade doesn't suffice to get me into medical school"

"Nothing else will serve"

13. serve

do military service

"She served in Vietnam"

"My sons never served, because they are short-sighted"

14. serve, service

mate with

"male animals serve the females for breeding purposes"

15. serve

put the ball into play

"It was Agassi's turn to serve"

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Quotations for served

First come, first served. [ Proverb ]

He that will be served must be patient. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Thou shalt be served thyself by every sense
Of service which thou renderest. [ E. B. Browning ]

A poor man served by thee shall make thee rich. [ Mrs. Browning ]

He that first came is not sure to be first served. [ Proverb ]

Choose none for thy servant who have served thy betters. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

It will appear how impertinent that grief was which served no end of life. [ Jeremy Taylor ]

He is best served who has no need to put the hands of others at the end of his arms. [ Rousseau ]

A woman is a well-served table, that one sees with different eyes before and after the meal.

A kinsman, a friend, or whom you entreat, take not to serve you, if you will be served neatly. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

The man is best served who has no occasion to put the hands of others at the end of his own arms. [ Rousseau ]

The crudest foe is a masked benefactor. The wars which make history so dreary have served the cause of truth and virtue. [ Emerson ]

There are no pleasures where women are not; and with the French, champagne itself has no flavor, unless served by the hand of beauty. [ Romieu ]

Half the world is on the wrong scent in the pursuit of happiness. They think it consists in having and getting, and in being served by others. It consists in giving and in serving others. [ Henry Drummond ]

A belief in the Bible, the fruit of deep meditation, has served me as the guide of my moral and literary life. I have found it a capital safely invested, and richly productive of interest. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

The emperor one day took up a pencil which fell from the hand of Titian, who was then drawing his picture; and upon the compliment which Titian made him on that occasion he said, Titian deserves to be served by Caesar. [ Dryden ]

Stothard learned the art of combining colors by closely studying butterflies' wings; he would often say that no one knew what he owed to these tiny insects. A burnt stick and a barn-door served Wilkie in lieu of pencil and canvas. [ Samuel Smiles ]

He that is ambitious for his son, should give him untried names, For those have served other men, haply may injure by their evils; Or otherwise may hinder by their glories; therefore set him by himself. To win for his individual name some clear praise. [ Tupper ]

So near are the boundaries of panegyric and invective, that a worn-out sinner is sometimes found to make the best declaimer against sin. The same high-seasoned descriptions which in his unregenerate state served to inflame his appetites, in his new province of a moralist will serve him (a little turned) to expose the enormity of those appetites in other men. [ Lamb ]

Threescore years and ten! It is the Scriptural statute of limitations. After that, you owe no active duties; for you the strenuous life is over. You are a time-expired man, to use Kipling's military phrase: You have served your term, well or less well, and you are mustered out. You are become an honorary member of the republic, you are emancipated, compulsions are not for you, nor any bugle-tail but lights out. You pay the time-worn duty bills if you choose, or decline if you prefer - and without prejudice - for they are not legally collectable. [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]

Morals are an acquirement - like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis - no man is born with them. I wasn't myself, I started poor. I hadn't a single moral. There is hardly a man in this house that is poorer than I was then. Yes, I started like that - the world before me, not a moral in the slot. Not even an insurance moral. I can remember the first one I ever got. I can remember the landscape, the weather, the - I can remember how everything looked. It was an old moral, an old second-hand moral, all out of repair, and didn't fit, anyway. But if you are careful with a thing like that, and keep it in a dry place, and save it for processions, and Chautauquas, and World's Fairs, and so on, and disinfect it now and then, and give it a fresh coat of whitewash once in a while, you will be surprised to see how well she will last and how long she will keep sweet, or at least inoffensive. When I got that mouldy old moral, she had stopped growing, because she hadn't any exercise; but I worked her hard, I worked her Sundays and all. Under this cultivation she waxed in might and stature beyond belief, and served me well and was my pride and joy for sixty-three years; then she got to associating with insurance presidents, and lost flesh and character, and was a sorrow to look at and no longer competent for business. She was a great loss to me. Yet not all loss. I sold her - ah, pathetic skeleton, as she was - I sold her to Leopold, the pirate King of Belgium; he sold her to our Metropolitan Museum, and it was very glad to get her, for without a rag on, she stands 57 feet long and 16 feet high, and they think she's a brontosaur. Well, she looks it. They believe it will take nineteen geological periods to breed her match. [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]

served in Scrabble®

The word served is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 10

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served in Words With Friends™

The word served is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 11

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters served:

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Word Growth involving served

Shorter words in served

serve

Longer words containing served

conserved

deserved deservedly undeservedly

deserved deservedness

deserved misdeserved

deserved undeserved undeservedly

deserved welldeserved

firstserved

observed misobserved

observed nonobserved

observed reobserved preobserved

observed unobserved

outserved

overserved

reserved preserved cryopreserved

reserved preserved selfpreserved

reserved preserved unpreserved

reserved preserved wellpreserved

reserved reservedly unreservedly

reserved reservedness

reserved selfreserved

reserved unreserved unreservedly

subserved

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unserved