Crossword-Solution: SERVE 5 letters, 268 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

Dictionary

Word	Word Type	Definition
Serve	v. t.	To work for; to labor in behalf of; to exert one's self continuously or statedly for the benefit of; to do service for; to be in the employment of, as an inferior, domestic, serf, slave, hired assistant, official helper, etc.; specifically, in a religious sense, to obey and worship.
Serve	v. t.	To be subordinate to; to act a secondary part under; to appear as the inferior of; to minister to.
Serve	v. t.	To be suitor to; to profess love to.
Serve	v. t.	To wait upon; to supply the wants of; to attend; specifically, to wait upon at table; to attend at meals; to supply with food; as, to serve customers in a shop.
Serve	v. t.	Hence, to bring forward, arrange, deal, or distribute, as a portion of anything, especially of food prepared for eating; -- often with up; formerly with in.
Serve	v. t.	To perform the duties belonging to, or required in or for; hence, to be of use to; as, a curate may serve two churches; to serve one's country.
Serve	v. t.	To contribute or conduce to; to promote; to be sufficient for; to satisfy; as, to serve one's turn.
Serve	v. t.	To answer or be (in the place of something) to; as, a sofa serves one for a seat and a couch.
Serve	v. t.	To treat; to behave one's self to; to requite; to act toward; as, he served me very ill.
Serve	v. t.	To work; to operate; as, to serve the guns.
Serve	v. t.	To bring to notice, deliver, or execute, either actually or constructively, in such manner as the law requires; as, to serve a summons.
Serve	v. t.	To make legal service opon (a person named in a writ, summons, etc.); as, to serve a witness with a subp/na.
Serve	v. t.	To pass or spend, as time, esp. time of punishment; as, to serve a term in prison.
Serve	v. t.	To copulate with; to cover; as, a horse serves a mare; -- said of the male.
Serve	v. t.	To lead off in delivering (the ball).
Serve	v. t.	To wind spun yarn, or the like, tightly around (a rope or cable, etc.) so as to protect it from chafing or from the weather. See under Serving.
Serve	v. i.	To be a servant or a slave; to be employed in labor or other business for another; to be in subjection or bondage; to render menial service.
Serve	v. i.	To perform domestic offices; to be occupied with household affairs; to prepare and dish up food, etc.
Serve	v. i.	To be in service; to do duty; to discharge the requirements of an office or employment. Specifically, to act in the public service, as a soldier, seaman. etc.
Serve	v. i.	To be of use; to answer a purpose; to suffice; to suit; to be convenient or favorable.
Serve	v. i.	To lead off in delivering the ball.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
SERVE	anagram	EVERS, REVES, SEVER, SEVRE, VEERS, VERES, VERSE

We have 268 clues for the answer “SERVE”

Clue	Answers
"In Which We ___," 1942 film	1 answer
"They also ___ . . . "	1 answer
Deliver a tennis ball, perhaps	1 answer
A Becker boomer	1 answer
A bad one is your fault	1 answer
ANSWER a purpose	1 answer
Ace vehicle	1 answer
Act the waiter	1 answer
Action during which a foot fault can occur	1 answer
An ace is one	1 answer
Badminton opener	1 answer
Be a waiter	1 answer
Be a waitron	1 answer
Be in office.	1 answer
Be in the Army	1 answer
Be of assistance to	1 answer
Begin a point in volleyball	1 answer
Begin a tennis game	1 answer
Begin a tennis match	1 answer
Begin a volleyball game	1 answer
Begin a volleyball rally	1 answer
Begin tennis	1 answer
Best part of Ivanisevic's game	1 answer
Borg's initial blast	1 answer
Bring a meal to	1 answer
Bring dinner to the table	1 answer
Bring food to table	1 answer
Bring out a meal	1 answer
Bring out dinner	1 answer
Bring out, as dinner	1 answer
Bring to the dinner table	1 answer
Bring to the supper table	1 answer
Come in handy	1 answer
Contribute to the cause	1 answer
Court starter	1 answer
Coward's "In Which We ___"	1 answer
DISH up food	1 answer
Deliver a la Sampras	1 answer
Deliver a subpoena	1 answer
Deliver, as a summons	1 answer
Dish out food	1 answer
Dish out/up	1 answer
Dish up or dish out, e.g.	1 answer
Dish up, as a dish	1 answer
Distribute the donuts	1 answer
Do a hitch	1 answer
Do a hitch in the military	1 answer
Do a tour of duty in the Persian Gulf, e.g.	1 answer
Do a waiter's job	1 answer
Do a waiter's work	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

AEERT

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Sentences with SERVE (5)

Why on earth should their beds be properly aired, seeing that they left them in such a thankless hurry? Would it not serve them jolly well right if they came back and found that their parents were spending the week-end in the country? It would be the moral lesson they have been in need of ever since we met them; but if we contrived things in this way Mrs.

Peter Pan James M. Barrie 1991

But know that in the Soule Are many lesser Faculties that serve Reason as chief; among these Fansie next Her office holds; of all external things, Which the five watchful Senses represent, She forms Imaginations, Aerie shapes, Which Reason joyning or disjoyning, frames All what we affirm or what deny, and call Our knowledge or opinion; then retires Into her private Cell when Nature rests.

Paradise Lost John Milton 1991

The Lion and the Bear saw him, but not being able to get up, said, “Woe be to us, that we should have fought and belabored ourselves only to serve the turn of a Fox.” It sometimes happens that one man has all the toil, and another all the profit.

Aesop’s Fables Aesop 2000

After he had committed this savage outrage upon my brother, he turned to me, and said that was the way he meant to serve me one of these days,—meaning, I suppose, when I came into his possession.

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass 1992

The economy, caught between two systems, is suffering from even greater mismatches between what is being produced and what would serve the best interests of enterprises and households.

The 1991 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency. 1992

Quotes with SERVE (3)

My ACTIONS should draw people to the God I serve, not my SALES PITCH. If people want what I have, they'll ask me how to get it. If not, that's their business.

Stefne Miller Collision

Jesus didn't come to earth to establish a new religion. He came to restore a broken relationship. He came to make the primary, primary again. The secondary activity of obedience to the law of God was always intended to serve the primary activity: to love God and enjoy Him forever. When that is primary, the secondary becomes a labor of love, a joyful, and "easy" burden to bear. (Matthew 11:28-30

Charles R. Swindoll

You only get one body; it is the temple of your soul. Even God is willing to dwell there. If you truly treat your body like a temple, it will serve you well for decades. If you abuse it you must be prepared for poor health and a lack of energy.

Oli Hille Creating the Perfect Lifestyle

Where this answer appears

Appears in: AARP, Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Rock & Roll, S&S, The Atlantic, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 255 times in crossword archives (1952–2025).