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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
waiter
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
dumb waiter
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
dumb
▪ Where design permits, the old-fashioned serving hatch can come in handy: it's the dumb waiter of the less-palatial home.
▪ The kitchen is equipped along old-fashioned lines, and meals reach the dining room via a dumb waiter.
head
▪ Led by the head waiter around a crowded bar we emerged into a restaurant with a breathtaking interior.
▪ They were here, in this restaurant, and Fernando was chatting amiably with the head waiter.
▪ The head waiter already has my name memorized.
▪ Roquelaure was recognised instantly by the head waiter who took them straight to a reserved corner table.
▪ The head waiter made a servile fuss when they arrived and begged permission for a photograph to be taken for publicity purposes.
▪ The head waiter was putting his coat on.
▪ Francisco, the head waiter, seemed surprised when Cameron walked in.
■ NOUN
wine
▪ They know, these wine waiters.
▪ Grave discussions between the wine waiter, Auguste and Alfred were in progress.
▪ Another ten minutes ensued while the agonising choice of wines was made, and the wine waiter departed.
■ VERB
ask
▪ She asked a waiter for another pot, and settled down to catching up with the story of Swan's life.
▪ We ask the waiters what people like.
tell
▪ She told the waiter some one was due to join her and waited.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A GOOD-LOOKING waiter produces a light.
▪ A woman goes to a curry house and annoys the waiter.
▪ He'd been a waiter for twenty years-and this was the day he broke free. ext.
▪ No one said a word until the waiters wheeled in the centrepiece of the main course.
▪ The House bill also excludes tipped workers, such as waiters who currently earn $ 2. 13 an hour.
▪ Their black gowns flowed to the floor where they were frequently trampled underfoot by passing waiters.
▪ When the waiter had served our entrees, a lull settled in.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Waiter

Waiter \Wait"er\, n.

  1. One who, or that which, waits; an attendant; a servant in attendance, esp. at table.

    The waiters stand in ranks; the yeomen cry, ``Make room,'' as if a duke were passing by.
    --Swift.

  2. A vessel or tray on which something is carried, as dishes, etc.; a salver.

    Coast waiter. See under Coast, n.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
waiter

late 14c., "attendant, watchman," agent noun from wait (v.). Sense of "attendant at a meal, servant who waits at tables" is from late 15c., originally in reference to household servants; in reference to inns, eating houses, etc., it is attested from 1660s.

Wiktionary
waiter

n. A male or sometimes female attendant who serve#Verb customers in a restaurant, café or similar.

WordNet
waiter
  1. n. a person whose occupation is to serve at table (as in a restaurant) [syn: server]

  2. a person who waits or awaits

Wikipedia
Waiter (film)

Waiter is a 2006 black comedy film by Alex van Warmerdam. It tells the story of Edgar, a discontented waiter. The film had its world premiere on the Toronto Film Festival on 10 September 2006. It was the opening film of the Netherlands Film Festival, where Waiter received two Golden Calves, for Best Scenario and Best Production Design. In January 2007 the film received a Golden Film. The film is about stagnation of creativity and a take on overbearing of elements in life, it also takes wryly a puck-shot at god and his relation with humans.

Waiter (disambiguation)

A waiter is a server of food and beverage.

Waiter or The Waiter may also refer to:

Usage examples of "waiter".

Late-night cafes inNew Yorkwere apparently so familiar with this procedure that waiters and other diners would smile indulgently at Benzedrine abusers when they picked up the smell of menthol across the room.

Baptistin left the room without waiting to answer, and in two seconds reappeared, bringing on a waiter all that his master had ordered, ready prepared, and appearing to have sprung from the ground, like the repasts which we read of in fairy tales.

Shape-ups were held in the predawn down by the Vineland courthouse, shadowy brown buses idling in the dark, work and wages posted silently in the windows some mornings Zoyd had gone down, climbed on, ridden out with other newcomers, all cherry to the labor market up here, former artists or spiritual pilgrims now becoming choker setters, waiters and waitresses, baggers and checkout clerks, tree workers, truckdrivers, and framers, or taking temporary swamping jobs like this, all in the service of others, the ones who did the building, selling, buying and speculating.

Our waiter returned with the coffee and desserts, and right as he was pouring a steaming cup for Elizabeth, the beeper on my belt went off.

We began by sitting down in front of a roaring fire, and for half an hour we did nothing but eat oysters, which were opened in our presence by a clever waiter, who took care not to lose a drop of the fluid.

I persisted in behaving towards her with a great air of respect, and one day she said that, having seen me in the disguise of a waiter, she would not have thought I was a man of a timid nature.

As soon as he was seated, a waiter brought several trays of zakuski, Russian appetizers: pickled beef tongue with horseradish sauce, red and black caviar and blini, mushrooms in aspic, pickled vegetables, herring.

He started the game, having locked out the blockhead of a waiter and dropped the key into his own pocket.

Another room to their left had a live band playing something South American just as noisily, Bluey grabbed a couple of glasses of champagne from a passing waiter and gave one to Cat.

Roger knocked out his pipe, turned Bock out of his chair, and sat down with infinite relish to read the memorable character sketch of Christopher, the head waiter, which is dear to every lover of taverns.

Seems The Big Man has complained that some fool Limey went berserk at The Boneyard early this morning, shot three of his men - two chauffeurs and a waiter, if you please - stole one of his cars and got away, leaving his overcoat and hat in the cloakroom.

Three or four years ago they sent her a silver waiter, and every Christmas they sent her a boquet,--it must cost as much as five dollars, the Landlady thought.

Christmas she got out the silver waiter and borrowed a glass tumbler and filled it with water, and put the boquet in it and set it on the waiter.

I see a quantity of chairs for hire at the rate of one sou, men reading the newspaper under the shade of the trees, girls and men breakfasting either alone or in company, waiters who were rapidly going up and down a narrow staircase hidden under the foliage.

But they did not really see the lake till they had taken the train for Niagara Falls, after breakfasting in the depot, where the children, used to the severe native or the patronizing Irish ministrations of Boston restaurants and hotels, reveled for the first time in the affectionate devotion of a black waiter.