# Guild

> Discord’s internal name for what the client calls a server. The API, developer documentation and every bot library use "guild"; users only ever see "server".

- Canonical: https://discordtools.blog/glossary/guild
- Group: Platform
- Also called: server
- See also: https://discordtools.blog/glossary/snowflake, https://discordtools.blog/glossary/sharding
- Updated: 2026-08-31
- Publication: The Index, an independent site not affiliated with Discord Inc.

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The split is purely historical, but it matters when reading documentation: `GUILD_MEMBER_ADD`,
`guild_id` and "guild-bound token" all refer to a server.