WAITER meaning: Server providing food in restaurants

We found 31 dictionaries that define the word waiter:

General (27 matching dictionaries)

waiter: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
waiter: Merriam-Webster
waiter: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
waiter: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
waiter: Collins English Dictionary
waiter: Vocabulary.com
Waiter, waiter: Wordnik
waiter: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
waiter: Wiktionary
waiter: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
waiter: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
waiter: Infoplease Dictionary
waiter: Dictionary.com
waiter: Online Etymology Dictionary
waiter: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Waiter (customs), Waiter (disambiguation), Waiter (film), Waiter, Waiter: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Waiter: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
waiter: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
waiter: Rhymezone
waiter: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
waiter: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
waiter: FreeDictionary.org
waiter: Mnemonic Dictionary
waiter: TheFreeDictionary.com
waiter: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

waiter: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)

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Slang (2 matching dictionaries)

waiter: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
the waiter: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ noun:  A male or female attendant who serves customers at their tables in a restaurant, café or similar.
▸ noun:  Someone who waits for somebody or something; a person who is waiting.
▸ noun:  (historical) A person working as an attendant at the London Stock Exchange.
▸ noun:  (obsolete) A vessel or tray on which something is carried, as dishes, etc.; a salver. (See etymology of dumbwaiter.)
▸ noun:  (obsolete) A custom house officer; a tide waiter.
▸ noun:  (obsolete) A watchman.
▸ verb:  (stative) To work as a waiter.

Opposite:

server, host, hostess, attendant

Types:

busboy, waitress, waitron, servebot, more...

Phrases:

head waiter, dumb waiter, wine waiter, tide waiter, shad waiter, more...

Adjectives:

dumb, young, old, little, black, italian, chinese, german, french, second, tall

Colors:

black, white, gray, burgundy, dark green, more...

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