We must always try to serve others.
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Serve
//sɝv//
Synonyms for "serve" (371 found)
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Closest matches (75)
serviceattendsufficeaccommodateaccordactact asact foradministeradminister toadvanceadvantageaffordallotallowansweranswer forapportionassistattend on
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attend toavailawardballbe correctbe equal tobe found wantingbe handybe inferiorbe instrumentalbe intimatebe of usebe okbe rightbearbear armsbefitbefittingbehavebendbend tobenefitbesteadbestowbestow onbiasbid comebowlbreak no bonescallcall awaycall backcall forcall forthcall incall outcall togethercall upcare forcarry armscastcatapult
Verb(12 words)
Noun(1 words)
Strong matches (111)
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convokecopulatecouplecovercurvedance attendance upondartdashdealdeal outdeal withdemanddiddledish outdish updispensedisposedistributedodo active dutydo dutydo fordo gooddo itdo no harmdo service todo the jobdo the trickdoledole outdonatedowncurvedrudgeendureevokeextendfacilitatefailfall shortfastballfavorfight forfill the billfirefitflingflipfollowforkfork outfornicateforwardforward passfosterfrigfulfillfunfunctionfunction asfurtherget bygiftgift withgivegive freelygive good returnsgive outgogo aroundgo betweengo throughgrantgratifygravitatehack ithand outhandlehave a tendencyhave nothing onhave sexhave sexual relationsheadheapheave
Related words (185)
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Noun(1 words)
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More general
36 entriesShowing 16 of 36 words.
More specific
5 entriesAntonyms
1 entriesSynonyms
4 entriesRelated terms
7 entriescauses desire
1 entriesderived
48 entriesShowing 16 of 48 words.
has context
10 entriesis a
1 entriesmanner of
10 entriesrelated to
40 entriesShowing 16 of 40 words.
similar
12 entriesTranslations
331 translations across 74 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- shërbej verb (to work for)
Ancient Greek
3 entries- διακονέω verb (to bring food to)
- λατρεύω verb (to work for)
- λατρεύω verb (religion: to obey and worship)
Arabic
4 entries- إِرْسَال noun (sports: act of putting the ball or shuttlecock in play)
- خدم verb (to work for)
- خَدَمَ verb (to work for)
- خَدَمَ verb (to be a servant)
Armenian
2 entries- ծառայել verb (to work for)
- ծառայել verb (to be subordinate to)
Assamese
2 entries- বঢ়া verb (to bring food to)
- বাঢ়া verb (to bring food to)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- veriş noun (sports: act of putting the ball or shuttlecock in play)
Belarusian
4 entries- абне́сці verb (to bring food to)
- абно́сіць verb (to bring food to)
- паслужы́ць verb (to work for)
- служы́ць verb (to work for)
Bulgarian
4 entries- сервис noun (sports: act of putting the ball or shuttlecock in play)
- връчвам verb (legal: to bring to notice, deliver, or execute)
- допринасям verb (to contribute, promote)
- замествам verb (to act in place of)
Catalan
4 entries- sacada noun (sports: act of putting the ball or shuttlecock in play)
- servei noun (sports: act of putting the ball or shuttlecock in play)
- sacar verb (sports: to lead off with first delivery (of the ball))
- servir verb (to work for)
Central Kurdish
1 entries- خزمەت کردن verb (to work for)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 發球 /发球 noun (sports: act of putting the ball or shuttlecock in play)
- 上菜 verb (to bring food to)
- 服務 /服务 verb (to work for)
- 當 /当 verb (to perform duties)
Church Slavic
1 entries- слꙋжити verb (to work for)
Cimbrian
1 entries- diinan verb (to work for)
Czech
4 entries- podat verb (sports: to lead off with first delivery (of the ball))
- podávat verb (to bring food to)
- servírovat verb (to bring food to)
- sloužit verb (to work for)
Danish
2 entries- tjene verb (to work for)
- tjene verb (to be subordinate to)
Dutch
4 entries- bedienen verb (to bring food to)
- dienen verb (to work for)
- opdienen verb (to bring food to)
- serveren verb (to attend, supply the wants of)
Esperanto
1 entries- servi verb (to attend, supply the wants of)
Faroese
2 entries- serva noun (sports: act of putting the ball or shuttlecock in play)
- serva verb (sports: to lead off with first delivery (of the ball))
Finnish
4 entries- syöttö noun (sports: act of putting the ball or shuttlecock in play)
- astua verb (to copulate (of animals))
- avustaa verb (to be subordinate to)
- hoitaa verb (to contribute, promote)
French
4 entries- service noun (sports: act of putting the ball or shuttlecock in play)
- purger verb (to spend time (of punishment))
- servir verb (to work for)
- servir verb (religion: to obey and worship)
Friulian
1 entries- servî verb (to work for)
Galician
4 entries- saque noun (sports: act of putting the ball or shuttlecock in play)
- servicio noun (sports: act of putting the ball or shuttlecock in play)
- sacar verb (sports: to lead off with first delivery (of the ball))
- servir verb (to work for)
German
4 entries- Angabe noun (sports: act of putting the ball or shuttlecock in play)
- aufschlagen verb (sports: to lead off with first delivery (of the ball))
- den Aufschlag haben verb (sports: to lead off with first delivery (of the ball))
- dienen verb (to work for)
Gothic
3 entries- 𐍃𐌺𐌰𐌻𐌺𐌹𐌽𐍉𐌽 verb (to work for)
- 𐍃𐌺𐌰𐌻𐌺𐌹𐌽𐍉𐌽 verb (religion: to obey and worship)
- 𐍃𐌺𐌰𐌻𐌺𐌹𐌽𐍉𐌽 verb (to be subordinate to)
Greek
1 entries- υπηρετώ verb (to work for)
Haitian Creole
2 entries- sèvi verb (to work for)
- sèvi verb (religion: to obey and worship)
Hebrew
4 entries- הִגִּישׁ verb (to bring food to)
- הִגִּישׁ verb (to set down on a table to be eaten or drunk)
- הִגִּישׁ verb (legal: to bring to notice, deliver, or execute)
- הִגִּישׁ verb (sports: to lead off with first delivery (of the ball))
Hindi
2 entries- खिलाना verb (to work for)
- खिलाना verb (to bring food to)
Hungarian
4 entries- adogatás noun (sports: act of putting the ball or shuttlecock in play)
- szerva noun (sports: act of putting the ball or shuttlecock in play)
- adogat verb (sports: to lead off with first delivery (of the ball))
- szervál verb (sports: to lead off with first delivery (of the ball))
Ingrian
2 entries- palvoa verb (to work for)
- sluužia verb (to be in service)
Interlingua
1 entries- servir verb (to attend, supply the wants of)
Italian
4 entries- servizio noun (sports: act of putting the ball or shuttlecock in play)
- adempiere verb (to perform duties)
- attendere verb (to be suitor to)
- attendere verb (to attend, supply the wants of)
Japanese
4 entries- サーブ noun (sports: act of putting the ball or shuttlecock in play)
- のぼせる verb (to bring food to)
- 出す verb (to bring food to)
- 務める verb (to work for)
Khmer
1 entries- បម្រើ verb (to bring food to)
Korean
4 entries- 서브 noun (sports: act of putting the ball or shuttlecock in play)
- 근무하다 verb (to work for)
- 복무하다 verb (to work for)
- 제공하다 verb (to bring food to)
Latin
4 entries- dapino verb (to set down on a table to be eaten or drunk)
- militō verb (military: to work or operate)
- oboedio verb (religion: to obey and worship)
- prosum verb (to attend, supply the wants of)
Lower Sorbian
1 entries- słužyś verb (to work for)
Luxembourgish
4 entries- asëtzen verb (to spend time (of punishment))
- déngen verb (to work for)
- verbéissen verb (to spend time (of punishment))
- zerwéieren verb (to bring food to)
Macedonian
1 entries- служи verb (to work for)
Malay
4 entries- servis noun (sports: act of putting the ball or shuttlecock in play)
- beribadah verb (religion: to obey and worship)
- berkhidmat verb (to work for)
- hidang verb (to bring food to)
Malayalam
3 entries- സേവിക്കുക verb (to work for)
- സേവിക്കുക verb (to perform domestic offices)
- സേവിക്കുക verb (to be in service)
Mauritian Creole
1 entries- servi verb (to work for)
Māori
4 entries- rato verb (to be in service)
- rato verb (to be of use)
- tuari verb (to bring food to)
- whakarato verb (to bring food to)
Ngazidja Comorian
2 entries- upvahua verb (to bring food to)
- urumishiha verb (religion: to obey and worship)
Northern Kurdish
1 entries- xizmet kirin verb (to work for)
Norwegian
4 entries- serve verb (sports: to lead off with first delivery (of the ball))
- servere verb (to bring food to)
- sørve verb (sports: to lead off with first delivery (of the ball))
- tjene verb (to work for)
Occitan
1 entries- servir verb (to work for)
Old East Slavic
1 entries- служити verb (to work for)
Old English
2 entries- þeġnian verb (to work for)
- þeġnian verb (to bring food to)
Oromo
1 entries- tajaajiluu verb (to work for)
Ottoman Turkish
2 entries- طاپمق verb (religion: to obey and worship)
- عبادت ایتمك verb (religion: to obey and worship)
Persian
2 entries- سرویس noun (sports: act of putting the ball or shuttlecock in play)
- سرو کردن verb (to bring food to)
Polish
4 entries- serw noun (sports: act of putting the ball or shuttlecock in play)
- serwis noun (sports: act of putting the ball or shuttlecock in play)
- zagrywka noun (sports: act of putting the ball or shuttlecock in play)
- podawać verb (to bring food to)
Portuguese
4 entries- sacada noun (sports: act of putting the ball or shuttlecock in play)
- saque noun (sports: act of putting the ball or shuttlecock in play)
- cumprir verb (to spend time (of punishment))
- sacar verb (sports: to lead off with first delivery (of the ball))
Quechua
1 entries- qaray verb (to bring food to)
Romanian
2 entries- servi verb (to work for)
- servi verb (to attend, supply the wants of)
Romansch
4 entries- sarveir verb (to work for)
- sarvir verb (to work for)
- servir verb (to work for)
- survir verb (to work for)
Russian
4 entries- пода́ча noun (sports: act of putting the ball or shuttlecock in play)
- обслу́живать verb (to attend, supply the wants of)
- обслужи́ть verb (to attend, supply the wants of)
- пода́ть verb (to bring food to)
Sardinian
4 entries- selvire verb (to work for)
- serbire verb (to work for)
- serbiri verb (to work for)
- servire verb (to work for)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- slúžiti verb (to work for)
- слу́жити verb (to work for)
Sicilian
3 entries- sirviri verb (to work for)
- sièrviri verb (to work for)
- sèrviri verb (to work for)
Slovak
1 entries- slúžiť verb (to work for)
Slovene
2 entries- servis noun (sports: act of putting the ball or shuttlecock in play)
- služiti verb (to work for)
Spanish
4 entries- servicio noun (sports: act of putting the ball or shuttlecock in play)
- cerner verb (military: to work or operate)
- cernir verb (military: to work or operate)
- desempeñar verb (to perform duties)
Swahili
1 entries- kutumika verb (to be a servant)
Swedish
4 entries- serve noun (sports: act of putting the ball or shuttlecock in play)
- avtjäna verb (to spend time (of punishment))
- betäcka verb (to copulate (of animals))
- fungera verb (to be of use)
Thai
1 entries- บริการ verb (to work for)
Turkish
2 entries- servis etmek verb (to bring food to)
- servis yapmak verb (to bring food to)
Ukrainian
4 entries- пода́ча noun (sports: act of putting the ball or shuttlecock in play)
- вруча́ти verb (legal: to bring to notice, deliver, or execute)
- вручи́ти verb (legal: to bring to notice, deliver, or execute)
- обслуго́вувати verb (to attend, supply the wants of)
Upper Sorbian
1 entries- słužić verb (to work for)
Venetan
1 entries- servir verb (to work for)
Vietnamese
3 entries- lên món verb (to bring food to)
- phục vụ verb (to work for)
- phục vụ verb (to bring food to)
Welsh
2 entries- serfiad noun (sports: act of putting the ball or shuttlecock in play)
- serfio verb (sports: to lead off with first delivery (of the ball))
Yiddish
2 entries- דינען verb (to work for)
- דינען verb (religion: to obey and worship)
Sample sentences
60 total sentences available.
I will be glad if I can serve you in any way.
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In order to serve you better, your call may be monitored.
Source: tatoeba (29879)
Mr Tom Jones has agreed to serve as the project leader for this new work item.
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