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
Allen told the hearing that Sessions knocked glasses off a table and that his friends had asked a waiter not to serve him any more drinks.
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Sabrina Weiss, PEOPLE, 24 Oct. 2025
For those hoping for something more British, waiters at the Golden Lion Pub on Deck 3 were whizzing by with plates.
—Miami Herald, 18 Oct. 2025
When the Linguina Monograno all’Astice arrives, there are oohs and aahs as a waiter tosses the pasta in front of guests and finishes with a sprinkling of zest from a cedro, a large Italian citrus.
—Sofia Celeste, Footwear News, 10 Oct. 2025
Come dinnertime, waiters clad in starched jackets pour dry local wines and serve hearty portions of homemade pasta with a flourish.
—Jacqui Gifford, Travel + Leisure, 29 Sep. 2025
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Sabrina Weiss, PEOPLE, 24 Oct. 2025
For those hoping for something more British, waiters at the Golden Lion Pub on Deck 3 were whizzing by with plates.
—Miami Herald, 18 Oct. 2025
When the Linguina Monograno all’Astice arrives, there are oohs and aahs as a waiter tosses the pasta in front of guests and finishes with a sprinkling of zest from a cedro, a large Italian citrus.
—Sofia Celeste, Footwear News, 10 Oct. 2025
Come dinnertime, waiters clad in starched jackets pour dry local wines and serve hearty portions of homemade pasta with a flourish.
—Jacqui Gifford, Travel + Leisure, 29 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for waiter
Recent Examples of Synonyms for waiter
Noun
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Beverly, a waitress who had another daughter and then a son in the two years after Smith was born (and eventually one more daughter), had little time for her eldest’s metaphysical ponderings.—
Amy Weiss-Meyer,
The Atlantic,
31 Oct. 2025
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In Robert Towne’s visually striking but dramatically inert adaptation of John Fante’s novel, Farrell plays an aspiring writer who moves to Los Angeles and falls in love with a beautiful Mexican waitress, played by Salma Hayek.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
30 Oct. 2025
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Translation engines break up sentences and process them using different servers, so someone can read an email in another language within seconds.—
Lyssanoel Frater,
USA Today,
29 Oct. 2025
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During the day-long outage last week, customers encountered higher error rates while launching EC2 instances, Amazon’s core virtual server product.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
29 Oct. 2025
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“Waiter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/waiter. Accessed 3 Nov. 2025.
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