client

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   any computer that is hooked up to a computer network

   Our local area network had three clients.

2. 2
   noun

   A person who receives help or services from a professional such as a lawyer or accountant.

   I corralled the judge, and we started off across the fields[…]. And thus we came by a circuitous route to Mohair,[…]. My client welcomed the judge […] and they disappeared together into the Ethiopian card-room, which was filled with the assegais and exclamation point shields Mr. Cooke had had made at the sawmill at Beaverton.

3. 3
   noun

   In ancient Rome, retainers and followers associated with a gens.

   The nomen belonged to all members of a gens and to all those attached to it (women, clients, and freedmen included).

4. 4
   noun

   Ellipsis of client state.

   A third preliminary comment deals explicitly with the relations between clients and superpowers.

5. 5
   noun

   someone who pays for goods or services

6. 6
   noun

   a person who seeks the advice of a lawyer

7. 7
   noun

   A customer, a buyer or receiver of goods or services.

8. 8
   noun

   The role of a computer application or system that requests and/or consumes the services provided by another having the role of server.

Etymology

From Middle English client, from Anglo-Norman clyent, Old French client, from Latin cliēns, akin to clinare (“to lean”).