transitive verb or intransitive verbWord forms: -served, -serving
to serve again
Word origin
[1865–70; re- + serve]This word is first recorded in the period 1865–70. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: black belt, figure skating, goulash, steamroller, tick-tack-toere- is a prefix, occurring originally in loanwords from Latin, used with the meaning“again” or “again and again” to indicate repetition, or with the meaning “back” or“backward” to indicate withdrawal or backward motion. Other words that use the affixre- include: refurbish, regenerate, retrace, retype, revert