Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A woman who serves at a table, as in a restaurant. See Usage Note at -ess.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A woman who waits at table: originally used only of one who served in a place of public entertainment.
Wiktionary
- n. A female attendant who serves customers in a restaurant, café, or similar.
- v. To work as a waitress.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A female waiter or attendant; a waiting maid or waiting woman.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a woman waiter
- v. serve as a waiter or waitress in a restaurant
Etymologies
- waiter + -ess (Wiktionary)
Examples
“* stood waiting for a seat for 5 minutes, I had to approach someone and ask to be seated* sat waiting 20 minutes for a waitress, I had to request a waitress* after ordering drinks was told”
“The dazzling part with the waitress is the biggest part I missed.”
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“With little planning and even less foresight, he hangs up his shingle and hires his favorite waitress from the local diner to be his Girl Friday.”
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“Here's the Ga-Ga Factor: the waitress is non-threatening.”
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“The pretty waitress is Arab and she walked up to him and said “HI”.”
“When a waitress is killed, Patrick figures out a clever way to trap the murderer.”
“Actually, that waitress is just permanently cranky.”
“What do you call a waitress getting treatment for her cancer?”
“Deal with those issues - the way men often assume that a waitress is on the menu, for example.”
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“The common way of addressing a waitress is señorita, regardless of her age or marital status; a waiter is addressed as señor.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘waitress’.
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-ess
words with the suffix -ess
goddess, giantess, enchantress, doctress, archeress, auditress, avengeress, buildress, butleress, captainess, cateress, championess and 106 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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INTERP - sexist language
Problematic and recommended terms according to the EP's guide on gender neutral language use
writer, waitress, waiter, usher, mayor, head, chair, staff, nurse, actor, gender-neutral la..., biased and 103 more...
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Maids
Maids of all stripes.
twait-shad, chambermaid, demoiselle, fille de chambre, housemaid, amah, lady's maid, femme-de-chambre, tire-woman, soubrette, comb-brush, abigail and 80 more...
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molotov
chiaroscuro, sitzbank, cigarette, balcony, sláinte, alfresco, *punch*, grin, babble, molotov, c'mere, kitschy and 57 more...
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