Waiter

Quick meaning: Waiter is a noun meaning A male or female attendant who serves customers at their tables in a restaurant, café or similar.

Meaning

A male or female attendant who serves customers at their tables in a restaurant, café or similar.

More Meanings

1. Someone who waits for somebody or something; a person who is waiting.
2. (stative) To work as a waiter.
3. (historical) A person working as an attendant at the London Stock Exchange.
4. (obsolete) A vessel or tray on which something is carried, as dishes, etc.; a salver. (See etymology of dumbwaiter.)
5. (obsolete) A custom house officer; a tide waiter.
6. (obsolete) A watchman.

Example Sentences

Waiter! There's a fly in my soup.

He dropped out and waitered at the Spain but was fired for throwing water in a customer’s face.

I had definitely had my fill of factory jobs, but had never worked in an office, nor bussed, nor waitered.

John [Jasper] started out as a cart boy, helping the ox-cart driver manage the oxen; but he was so smart that he was soon transferred to the house, where he waitered and worked in the garden.

Word Forms

• waiters
• waitering
• waitered

Synonyms for waiter

Depending on context, synonyms include server.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include server, busboy, barman, bartender, ladle, box.

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