waiter

noun

ˈwā-tər How to pronounce waiter (audio)
Definition of waiternext
as in waitress
a person who serves food or drink waiters at that elegant restaurant must go through an extended training program before being allowed to serve customers

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Recent Examples of waiter Both waiters and watchers then make a beeline back to their original spaces, often losing out to another parker and driving around some more. — Norman Steisel, New York Daily News, 29 June 2026 Two years ago, her brother Erick went to work as a waiter at a party. — Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 26 June 2026 In January, local media widely reported that police arrested Argentine citizen Agostina Páez in Rio after being filmed mimicking a monkey toward a waiter at a nightclub. — ABC News, 24 June 2026 Giresse struck up a friendship with Zein in Mexico after Zein decided to organize a match between himself and American kids attending the World Cup against waiters from a hotel in Mexico City. — Ethan Hanson, Daily News, 23 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for waiter
Recent Examples of Synonyms for waiter
  1. waitress
  2. server
Noun
  • His true seasonal arc begins not with Bruce’s (Damon Daunno) death but rather in the Brick & Bacon, a New York City diner where a 20something waitress named Regina (Delainey Hayles) works shifts that don’t get her any closer to making ends meet.
    — Sabrina Reed, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026
  • Crawford won the 1945 Oscar as a waitress who rises to own a string of Los Angeles restaurants.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 26 June 2026
Definition of waitress
Noun
  • Meta has faced growing concerns about its massive capital spending on servers, data centers, and AI infrastructure.
    — Alexa LoMonaco, CNBC, 3 July 2026
  • The thing acting on the company’s behalf is not a server in the company’s rack.
    — Teodor Calin, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
Definition of server

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