Definition of Serve well

1. Verb. Promote, benefit, or be useful or beneficial to. "The President's wisdom has served the country well"

Exact synonyms: Serve
Generic synonyms: Foster, Nurture
Related verbs: Serve
Derivative terms: Servant

Lexicographical Neighbors of Serve Well

servantesses
servanthood
servanthoods
servantless
servantry
servants
servants' quarters
servation
servaunt
servaunts
serve
serve out
serve somebody right
serve time
serve up
serve well (current term)
serveable
served
served time
servee
servees
servelet
servent
servents
server
server-side
serveries
serverless
serverlet
serverlets

Literary usage of Serve well

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Letters of Thomas Carlyle, 1826-1836 by Thomas Carlyle (1888)
"think with you and have always thought, can hardly be permanently comfortable for our Mother; if it serve well for one year, that is all I hope of it: then ..."

2. The Americana: A Universal Reference Library, Comprising the Arts and by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines (1912)
"At higher hydraulic head the this simple design serve well up to very much larger capacities. In case the necessary width becomes too great to be ..."

3. Library Journal by American Library Association, Library Association, Richard Rogers Bowker, Charles Ammi Cutter (1908)
"Much the same system as must be used in libraries where seminaries and stacks are not inseparably connected, may serve well in this laboratory extension use ..."

4. The Life and Letters of Sir George Savile, Bart., First Marquis of Halifax &c by Helen Charlotte Foxcroft, George Savile Halifax (1898)
"Resolving to serve well, and at the same time resolving to please, is generally resolving to do what is not to be done, A man that will serve well ..."

5. The Life and Letters of Sir George Savile, Bart., First Marquis of Halifax &c by Helen Charlotte Foxcroft, George Savile Halifax (1898)
"Resolving to serve well, and at the same time resolving to please, ... A man that will serve well must often rule the master so hard that it will hurt him. ..."

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