Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A woman who serves at a table, as in a restaurant.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A woman who waits at table: originally used only of one who served in a place of public entertainment.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A female waiter or attendant; a waiting maid or waiting woman.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A female attendant who serves customers in a
restaurant ,café , or similar. - verb To work as a waitress.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a woman waiter
- verb serve as a waiter or waitress in a restaurant
Etymologies
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Examples
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* stood waiting for a seat for 5 minutes, I had to approach someone and ask to be seated* sat waiting 20 minutes for a waitress, I had to request a waitress* after ordering drinks was told
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The dazzling part with the waitress is the biggest part I missed.
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Here's the Ga-Ga Factor: the waitress is non-threatening.
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Here's the Ga-Ga Factor: the waitress is non-threatening.
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Actually, that waitress is just permanently cranky.
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The pretty waitress is Arab and she walked up to him and said “HI”.
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With little planning and even less foresight, he hangs up his shingle and hires his favorite waitress from the local diner to be his Girl Friday.
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When a waitress is killed, Patrick figures out a clever way to trap the murderer.
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What do you call a waitress getting treatment for her cancer?
Healthcare Bill endiron 2010
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Deal with those issues - the way men often assume that a waitress is on the menu, for example.
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