A serving is an amount of food that is given to one person at a meal.
Quantities will vary according to how many servings of soup you want to prepare. [+ of]
Each serving contains 240 calories.
Synonyms: portion, helping, ration, plateful More Synonyms of serving
2. adjective [ADJECTIVE noun]
A serving spoon or dish is used for giving out food at a meal.
Pile the potatoes into a warm serving dish.
serving in British English
(ˈsɜːvɪŋ)
noun
a portion or helping of food or drink
serving in American English
(ˈsɜrvɪŋ)
noun
1.
the act of one who serves
2.
a helping, or single portion, of food
adjective
3.
used for or suitable for giving food to a person or persons at the table
a serving dish
Examples of 'serving' in a sentence
serving
Two servings of starchy foods a week.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
This will be enough for four servings.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
Yet almost half were eating just two servings of fruit or vegetables a day or less.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
Adults need a minimum of four servings daily from this group.
Kowalski, Robert E The 8-Week Cholesterol Cure (1990)
This pudding contributes two servings of fruit to your five a day.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
One serving gives one portion of your five servings of fruit and veg for the day.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
It also counts towards your five servings of fruit and vegetables for the day.
The Sun (2010)
This is because women of childbearing age are advised to have no more than one or two servings a week.
The Sun (2011)
There, her biggest challenge was to eat smaller servings.
The Sun (2008)
These provide around 100 calories and small servings do not contain lots of sugar or fat.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
It seems if you want to indulge, it has to be on very small servings.
The Sun (2013)
You can therefore have up to four 140g servings of canned tuna a week.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
I keep the servings small and heap up the vegetables.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
When it comes to your husband, he can have up to four servings of oily fish a week.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
Makes three to four servings.
The Sun (2013)
You need 25g of soya protein a day, which means having at least three soya food servings a day.
The Sun (2011)
In other languages
serving
British English: serving NOUN
A serving is an amount of food that is given to one person at a meal.
Quantities will vary according to how many servings of soup you want to prepare.
American English: serving
Brazilian Portuguese: porção
Chinese: > 一份食物的
European Spanish: servicio
French: portion
German: Portion
Italian: porzione
Japanese: 一人分
Korean: 1인분
European Portuguese: porção
Latin American Spanish: porción
All related terms of 'serving'
serve
If you serve your country , an organization , or a person, you do useful work for them.
disserve
to do a disservice to
re-serve
to serve again
service
A service is something that the public needs, such as transport, communications facilities , hospitals , or energy supplies, which is provided in a planned and organized way by the government or an official body.
self-serving
If you describe someone as self-serving , you are critical of them because they are only interested in what they can get for themselves.
serving dish
a dish in which food is presented or served, esp before being shared into individual portions
serving hatch
a small hatch or opening in a kitchen wall used to serve food through to an adjoining room
serving spoon
a large spoon or ladle used to serve out individual portions of food
serving soldier
A soldier is a person who works in an army, especially a person who is not an officer.
serve out
If someone serves out their term of office , contract , or prison sentence , they do not leave before the end of the agreed period of time.
service hatch
a small hatch or opening in a kitchen wall used to serve food through to an adjoining room
hatch
When a baby bird, insect , or other animal hatches , or when it is hatched , it comes out of its egg by breaking the shell .