Discord developer documentation calls its servers “guilds.”
In Discord’s API terminology, a guild is the underlying object that users commonly experience as a server. A guild contains members, roles, channels, permissions, and other settings, while the everyday Discord interface generally uses the friendlier word “server.”
The term comes from the platform’s early gaming and community orientation, where a guild commonly means an organized group of players. It also gives the API a precise name for a server-like container. Developers therefore encounter fields and endpoints such as guild_id, guild commands, guild members, and guild channels. The identifier is usually a numeric Discord snowflake rather than a human-readable server name.
“Guild” does not mean a chat room or a single channel. A guild can contain many text, voice, forum, announcement, and stage channels, along with roles and moderation settings. Direct messages and group DMs are separate from guilds. Discord’s documentation sometimes explicitly explains the terminology by saying that guilds are also known as Discord servers, so both terms refer to the same broad community space in different contexts.