serving

Other forms of serving

plural

servings·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about serving

What does serving mean?

serving means "an individual quantity of food or drink taken as part of a meal". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in serving?

serving has 2 syllables: ser-ving. The stress falls on "ser". In IPA it is /ˈsɝvɪŋ/.

What is another word for serving?

Close synonyms include helping, portion, service, service of process. 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 serving a common word?

serving is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.