service – English noun declension

English noun forms of service

Noun: service
Singularservice
Pluralservices

Sample Sentences

  • I say I did him a service by ending our relationship – now he can freely pursue his career.
  • The Parliament for ever cries more money, / The service of the state demands more money. / Just heaven! of what service is the state? [1794, Robert Southey, Wat Tyler. A Dramatic Poem. In Three Acts, London: J[ohn] M‘Creery, […] for Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, […], published 1817, →OCLC, Act I, page 7:]
  • Then he commenced to talk, really talk. and inside of two flaps of a herring's fin he had me mesmerized, like Eben Holt's boy at the town hall show. He talked about the ills of humanity, and the glories of health and Nature and service and land knows what all. [1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter IV, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:]
  • Lancelot was at the service of King Arthur.
  • The lesser griefs that may be said, / ⁠That breathe a thousand tender vows, / ⁠Are but as servants in a house / Where lies the master newly dead; / Who speak their feeling as it is, / ⁠And weep the fulness from the mind: / ⁠‘It will be hard’ they say ‘to find / Another service such as this.’ [1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XX”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 33:]
  • Thank you for your service.
  • the service
  • I did three years in the service before coming here.
  • Hair care is a service industry.
  • The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about […], or offering services that let you "stay up to date with what your friends are doing",[...]and so on. But the real way to build a successful online business is to be better than your rivals at undermining people's control of their own attention. [2013 June 21, Oliver Burkeman, “The tao of tech”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 2, page 27:]
  • This machine provides the name service for the LAN.
  • She brought out the silver tea service.
  • When their lavish fiestas ended they threw the silver service and even golden vessels from their balconies to be picked up by lucky passersby. [1997, Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent, Monthly Review Press, page 36:]
  • The player had four service faults in the set.
  • Here, in the transept and choir, where the service was being held, one was conscious every moment of an increasing brightness; colours glowing vividly beneath the circular chandeliers, and the rows of small lights on the choristers' desks flashed and sparkled in front of the boys' faces, deep linen collars, and red neckbands. [1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter V, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:]
  • The funerary service was touching.
  • He Suſpends on theſe Reaſons, that Thomas Rue had granted a general Diſcharge to Adam Muſhet, who was his Conjunct, and correus debendi, after the alleadged Service, which Diſcharged Muſhet, and conſequently Houstoun his Partner. [1668 July 3, James Dalrymple, “Thomas Rue contra Andrew Houſtoun” in The Deciſions of the Lords of Council & Seſſion I (Edinburgh, 1683), page 548]
  • The service happened yesterday.
  • Pray, do my service to his majesty. [1613 (date written), William Shakespeare, [John Fletcher], “The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:]

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *ser-der.?
3. Proto-Italic *serwos
4. Latin servus
5. Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós
6. Proto-Italic *-ijos
7. Proto-Italic *-ios
8. Old Latin -ios
9. Latin -ius
10. Latin -ia
11. Latin -itia
12. Latin servitiumbor.
13. Old French servisebor.
14. Old English serfis
15. Middle English servise
16. English service
17. From Middle English servise, from Old English serfis, from Old French servise (French service), from the verb servir, from Latin servitium (compare Portuguese serviço, Italian servizio, Norman sèrvice, Spanish servicio), from servus (“servant; serf; slave”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ser-wo-s (“guardian”), possibly from *ser- (“watch over, protect”). Displaced native Old English þeġnung. See: Middle English Nouns 'servise', Old English Nouns 'serfis', French Nouns 'service', Latin Nouns 'servitium', Portuguese Nouns 'serviço', Italian Nouns 'servizio', Spanish Nouns 'servicio'.

Verbs referencing "service"

Dutch Nouns service, Hungarian Nouns szerviz, Russian Nouns сервис, Ukrainian Nouns сервіс.