break of serve

1. 1.

   (tennis) a score consisting of winning a game when your opponent was serving

   “he was up two breaks in the second set”

   Synonymsbreak

   Broaderscore

   tennis

Questions about break of serve

What does break of serve mean?

break of serve means "(tennis) a score consisting of winning a game when your opponent was serving".

What is another word for break of serve?

Close synonyms include break. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is break of serve a common word?

break of serve is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.