as in waitresses
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 waiters
Just ask and they’ll be brought to your table by white-gloved waiters for your reading pleasure over coffee, a digestif, and mellow jazz.
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Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Jan. 2026
Chief among Galatoire’s assets is the focus on individual veteran waiters, some of whom have decades of service behind them — four in the case of Billy Fontenot, whose late father worked there 54 years.
—Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 17 Jan. 2026
Before the show premiered and began to take over the cultural conversation, Williams and Storrie both worked as waiters while auditioning; Heated Rivalry has turned out to be a break bigger than either one of them anticipated.
—Justin Fenner, Robb Report, 12 Jan. 2026
The waiters are exceedingly handsome here as well, but skip the pita bread.
—Laura Ness, Mercury News, 11 Jan. 2026
There were no waiters with tiny hors d’oeuvres.
—David Canfield, HollywoodReporter, 30 Dec. 2025
The waiters were on top of their game.
—Heidi Finley, Charlotte Observer, 29 Dec. 2025
Roving waiters circulated, offering caviar bumps and freshly shucked oysters to a crowd swaddled in fur and cowboy boots, carrying dogs decked out in sunglasses, mini cowboy hats, and Moncler puffers.
—Rachel Marlowe, Vanity Fair, 22 Dec. 2025
Plastic fruits like these grapes let the waiters know which order to deliver to which table.
—Tamara Shopsin, Travel + Leisure, 16 Dec. 2025
Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Jan. 2026
Chief among Galatoire’s assets is the focus on individual veteran waiters, some of whom have decades of service behind them — four in the case of Billy Fontenot, whose late father worked there 54 years.
—Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 17 Jan. 2026
Before the show premiered and began to take over the cultural conversation, Williams and Storrie both worked as waiters while auditioning; Heated Rivalry has turned out to be a break bigger than either one of them anticipated.
—Justin Fenner, Robb Report, 12 Jan. 2026
The waiters are exceedingly handsome here as well, but skip the pita bread.
—Laura Ness, Mercury News, 11 Jan. 2026
There were no waiters with tiny hors d’oeuvres.
—David Canfield, HollywoodReporter, 30 Dec. 2025
The waiters were on top of their game.
—Heidi Finley, Charlotte Observer, 29 Dec. 2025
Roving waiters circulated, offering caviar bumps and freshly shucked oysters to a crowd swaddled in fur and cowboy boots, carrying dogs decked out in sunglasses, mini cowboy hats, and Moncler puffers.
—Rachel Marlowe, Vanity Fair, 22 Dec. 2025
Plastic fruits like these grapes let the waiters know which order to deliver to which table.
—Tamara Shopsin, Travel + Leisure, 16 Dec. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for waiters
servers
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Data centers are warehouse-like facilities housing computer servers and components essential for storing, processing and disseminating large amounts of data.—
Adam Bell,
Charlotte Observer,
3 Feb. 2026
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The research, conducted by teams from IMDEA Networks Institute and European universities, showed that certain apps and services continued communicating with external servers even after users attempted to limit tracking.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
3 Feb. 2026
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“Waiters.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/waiters. Accessed 8 Feb. 2026.
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