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waitress

[ wey-tris ]

noun

  1. a woman who waits on tables, as in a restaurant.


verb (used without object)

  1. to work or serve as a waitress:

    She waitressed in a restaurant to help pay her way through college.

waitress

/ ˈweɪtrɪs /

noun

  1. a woman who serves at table, as in a restaurant
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

verb

  1. intr to act as a waitress
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of waitress1

First recorded in 1580–90; wait(e)r + -ess
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Example Sentences

Cheyenne Bailey, a 32-year-old waitress from Queens, said she went through a doom spending phase shortly before and after the election, buying hair accessories, clothes and cosmetics.

From Salon

There remains a strict sense of territory and hierarchy as the waitresses do their work and the chefs do theirs, all with an anxious intensity.

The kitchen turns into a madhouse with cooks working and waitresses fighting to get their orders out first, all while the floor is flooded with soda.

When she played an insecure, nutty waitress who sketches her idols from the 1960s in “After Hours,” The Times called her performance “touchingly bizarre.”

There are some handshakes before Khal talks to the waitress in German and then switches back to Arabic, his native tongue.

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