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"Server" is a colloquialism. As used in casual speech, it's a system that serves something. If you can access anything the system offers remotely, it's serving to you and therefore is a server.
Long before I really got into IT, my mom's laptop had an internet connection it shared. That was a server.
After that but before I setup my first Linux system, my brother and I were sharing files from our desktops. We were both servers (and clients).
A server is just something that serves something.