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
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.
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Ethan Hanson,
Daily News,
23 June 2026
Some fans traveled from other states, while others paid hundreds of dollars to have line-waiters save spots for them.
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Shania Russell,
Entertainment Weekly,
18 June 2026
My regular waiter, Ryan, always had a glass of orange juice waiting for me at breakfast; my cabin attendant Sabrine kept my fridge stocked with sparkling water; and bartender Dennis always had my cocktail ready to go for me following dinner.
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Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
16 June 2026
It’s called the Zeigarnik effect, first studied by the Soviet psychologist Bluma Zeigarnik in 1927, after her professor observed that waiters remembered the details of unpaid orders but forgot orders whose bills had been settled.
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Patricia Marx,
New Yorker,
15 June 2026
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Ethan Hanson,
Daily News,
23 June 2026
Some fans traveled from other states, while others paid hundreds of dollars to have line-waiters save spots for them.
—
Shania Russell,
Entertainment Weekly,
18 June 2026
My regular waiter, Ryan, always had a glass of orange juice waiting for me at breakfast; my cabin attendant Sabrine kept my fridge stocked with sparkling water; and bartender Dennis always had my cocktail ready to go for me following dinner.
—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
16 June 2026
It’s called the Zeigarnik effect, first studied by the Soviet psychologist Bluma Zeigarnik in 1927, after her professor observed that waiters remembered the details of unpaid orders but forgot orders whose bills had been settled.
—
Patricia Marx,
New Yorker,
15 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for waiter
Noun
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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.
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Crawford won the 1945 Oscar as a waitress who rises to own a string of Los Angeles restaurants.
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Because data centers tend to be built in clusters where public policy is forgiving and resources plentiful, the bulk of Americans who share their neighborhood with server farms live in a relatively small handful of states, such as Virginia and Texas.
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The vast majority of the staff, from servers and sommeliers to porters and guides, hail from the surrounding area and evangelize for the Eastern Tennessee way of life.
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“Waiter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/waiter. Accessed 3 Jul. 2026.
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