servir — meaning in English
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English meaning
- avail verb To make use of an opportunity or resource, usually for one's own benefit.
- await verb To wait for something or someone, often with a sense of expectation.
- cater verb To provide food and drink, typically for an event, as a professional service.
- do verb To perform or carry out an action or task.
- fit adj Physically healthy and in good shape.
- serve verb To provide help, food, or a service to someone.
- service noun Work done to help or benefit someone, or the act of providing this.
- suffice verb To be enough for a purpose or need.
- wait noun A period spent staying where you are, or delaying action, until something happens.
Senses
servir is used for these senses in English:
- avail (intransitive) To be of use or advantage; to answer or serve the purpose; to have strength, force, or efficacy sufficient to accomplish the object.
- await (transitive, intransitive) To serve or attend; to wait on, wait upon.
- do (ambitransitive) To suffice.
- do (intransitive) To be reasonable or acceptable.
- fit (intransitive) To have sufficient space available at some location to be able to be there.
- serve (transitive, archaic) To be suitor to; to be the lover of. [from 14th c.]
- serve (transitive, intransitive, sports) To lead off with the first delivery over the net in tennis, volleyball, ping pong, badminton etc. [from 16th c.]
- service (transitive) To serve.
avail — full definition
- verb To make use of an opportunity or resource, usually for one's own benefit.
- noun Use or benefit, especially in the phrase "to no avail," meaning without success.