1. to be a servant

2. to do military or naval service

3. to assist a celebrant as server at mass

4. to be of use
in a day when few people could write, seals served as signatures
— Elizabeth W. King

5. to be favorable, opportune, or convenient

6. to be worthy of reliance or trust
if memory serves

7. to hold an office discharge a duty or function
serve on a jury

8. to prove adequate or satisfactory suffice
it will serve for this task

9. to help persons to food: such as

10. to wait at table

11. to set out portions of food or drink

12. to wait on customers

13. to put the ball or shuttlecock in play in various games (such as tennis, volleyball, or badminton)

14. to be a servant to attend

15. to give the service and respect due to (a superior)

16. to comply with the commands or demands of gratify

17. to give military or naval service to

18. to perform the duties of (an office or post)

19. to act as server at (mass)

20. to pay a lover's or suitor's court to (a lady)
that gentle lady, whom I love and serve
— Edmund Spenser

21. to work through (a term of service)

22. to put in (a term of imprisonment)

23. to wait on at table

24. to bring (food) to a diner

25. present, provide —usually used with up
the novel served up many laughs

26. to furnish or supply with something needed or desired

27. to wait on (a customer) in a store

28. to furnish professional service to

29. to answer the needs of

30. to be enough for suffice

31. to contribute or conduce to promote

32. to treat or act toward in a specified way
he served me ill

33. to bring to notice, deliver, or execute as required by law

34. to make legal service upon (a person named in a process)

35. to copulate with

36. to wind yarn or wire tightly around (a rope or stay) for protection

37. to provide services that benefit or help

38. to put (the ball or shuttlecock) in play (as in tennis, volleyball, or badminton)

39. to be deserved

40. the act or action of putting the ball or shuttlecock in play in various games (such as volleyball, badminton, or tennis) also a turn to serve
it's your serve

41. to give (food or drink) to someone at a meal, in a restaurant, etc.

42. to give food or drink to (someone)

43. to be enough food for (a particular number of people)

44. the act or action of throwing a ball into the air and hitting it over a net to start play in tennis, volleyball, etc.

45. to help people to food or drink or set out helpings of food or drink

46. to be of use answer some purpose
The lawn serves as our sports facility.
— Lemony Snicket, The Austere Academy

47. to be a servant

48. to give the service and respect due
serve God

49. to be in prison for or during (a period of time)

50. to provide helpful services
Our friendly staff will serve you.

51. to be enough for
The pie will serve eight people.

52. to hold an office perform a duty
I served as club treasurer.

53. to perform a term of service
He served in the marines.

54. to furnish with something needed or desired
There is no grocery store to serve the area.

55. to put the ball or shuttlecock in play (as in tennis, volleyball, or badminton)

56. to be deserved
You didn't study, so if you fail the test it will serve you right.

57. an act of putting the ball or shuttlecock in play (as in tennis, volleyball, or badminton)

58. to deliver, publish, or execute (notice or process) as required by law
no notice of any such request was ever served on the husband
— National Law Journal

59. to make legal service upon (the person named in a process) inform or notify by legal service
unless the city had been served with prior notice of a defect
— Gene Mustain

60. to put in (a term of imprisonment)
has served five years of her sentence