Definitions for waiter
ˈweɪ tərwait·er

Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. waiter, servernoun

   a person whose occupation is to serve at table (as in a restaurant)

2. waiternoun

   a person who waits or awaits

Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. waiternoun

   A male attendant who serves customers in a restaurant, cafe or similar.

   Waiter! There's a fly in my soup.

2. waiternoun

   Someone who waits, such as at a table.

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Waiternoun

   one who, or that which, waits; an attendant; a servant in attendance, esp. at table

2. Waiternoun

   a vessel or tray on which something is carried, as dishes, etc.; a salver

Matched Categories

1. • Dining-room Attendant
   • Person

British National Corpus

1. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'waiter' in Nouns Frequency: #3016

How to pronounce waiter?

1. Alex

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

How to say waiter in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of waiter in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of waiter in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of waiter in a Sentence

1. Rex Hudler:

   Waiter.....check please!

2. Barack Obama:

   Let's face it, nobody wants a waiter who feels like they have to come to work when they're coughing or contagious, that's not good for anybody.

3. Harrison Ford:

   On being an actor .nothing more than a worker in a service occupation . It's like being a waiter or a gas station attendant, but I'm waiting on 6 million people in a week if I'm lucky.

4. Raymond Chandler:

   Would you convey my compliments to the purist who reads your proofs and tell him or her that I write in a sort of broken-down patois which is something like the way a Swiss waiter talks, and that when I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it will stay split, and when I interrupt the velvety smoothness of my more or less literate syntax with a few sudden words of bar-room vernacular, that is done with the eyes wide open and the mind relaxed but attentive.

5. Don Herold:

   It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

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