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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
waitress
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
cocktail waitress
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
cocktail
▪ Nobility could be found anywhere, and Charity allowed herself to feel faintly optimistic about her future as a cocktail waitress.
▪ Wilson makes a memorable cameo appearance showing some serious cleavage as a cocktail waitress who attempts to seduce Guy.
▪ Natalie Schneyder, 28, worked as a cocktail waitress until her legs objected.
■ VERB
ask
▪ He asked, and the waitress told him no.
work
▪ I worked part-time as a waitress and office cleaner.
▪ Instead, she moved to Boston, where she worked as a waitress and put herself through school.
▪ A doctor working as a waitress.
▪ Natalie Schneyder, 28, worked as a cocktail waitress until her legs objected.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A one-night stand with a waitress, played by Goldie Hawn, leads to her taking over his empty home.
▪ And when a waitress named Nanette thrust a glass of claret into his shaking right hand it seemed, well, perfect.
▪ Cecilia thought this would not be much comfort to the relatives and friends of the waitress and the guest.
▪ He asked, and the waitress told him no.
▪ It made Miguel laugh to see her make like a real waitress.
▪ One waitress is said to have started jumping up and down.
▪ The waitress comes and we order a pizza.
▪ The other waitress, Chris, had had the same problem last year with her landlady.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Waitress

Waitress \Wait"ress\, n. A female waiter or attendant; a waiting maid or waiting woman.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
waitress

"woman who waits tables at a restaurant," 1834, from waiter + -ess.

Wiktionary
waitress

n. A female attendant who serves customers in a restaurant, café, or similar. vb. To work as a waitress.

WordNet
waitress

n. a woman waiter

Wikipedia
Waitress (film)

Waitress is a 2007 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Adrienne Shelly, who also appears in a supporting role, making this her final appearance before her death. The film debuted at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival and went into limited theatrical release in the US on May 2, 2007.

Waitress (disambiguation)

A waitress is a female server of food or drink.

Waitress may also refer to:

  • Waitress (film), a 2007 comedy-drama
    • Waitress (musical), a 2015 musical based on the above
  • Waitress!, a 1981 comedy movie
  • The Waitress, an album by Jonathan Byrd
  • The Waitresses, a new wave band
  • The Waitresses (artists), a performance art collective
  • "Waitress", a song by Live from the album Throwing Copper
  • The Waitress, a recurring character on It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
Waitress (musical)

Waitress is a musical with music and lyrics by Sara Bareilles, and a book by Jessie Nelson. Based on the 2007 film of the same name, written by Adrienne Shelly, the musical tells the story of Jenna Hunterson, a waitress in an unhappy marriage to her husband Earl. When Jenna unexpectedly becomes pregnant she begins an affair with her gynecologist Dr. Jim Pomatter. Looking for ways out she sees a pie contest and its grand prize as her chance.

Stage rights to the film were purchased in 2007, whilst the musicals creative team was assembled by 2013. The original production of Waitress premiered at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge in August 2015, with direction by Diane Paulus and choreography by Chase Brock, and starring Jessie Mueller, Drew Gehling and Joe Tippett as Jenna, Jim and Earl, respectively. It made its Broadway debut at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre on April 24, 2016 following previews that began on March 25, 2016. A US tour is scheduled for 2017.

Usage examples of "waitress".

It was a segment of a video taken eight months before, at the wedding of Baculum and his twelfth wife, a twenty-three-year-old part-time waitress at a highway restaurant outside of Mobile, Alabama.

A waitress whose fingers each luminesce a different color takes their orders: Bonny a mojito, Katelyn white wine.

A waitress remembered they walked out together, Brame and the other guy.

A waitress without being asked brought Brose a glass of citron presse which he despatched in a long smooth swallow.

The chief prosecutor made the introductions, one by one, in the formal Japanese manner, while waitresses in kimono and obi circulated with glasses of Louis Roederer champagne, beluga malossol caviar, and toro, the fat-webbed sushi Japanese loved.

Signor Mantissa waylaid a waitress, who set down four liters of beer on the table.

Everything had the sound of money: the nervous laughter that rang like clinking credits, the electric babble that rose and fell with the familiar rhythm of market-day bartering all over the galaxy, the voices of bartenders and waitresses selling eyeblasters and pallies at prices ten times normal.

The waitresses and bar staff were pretty young women and pretty boys, working with a kind of rising intensity, serving the early, preshow dinner patrons who were just now beginning to flow through the doors.

Carolina Moon and Ora Lee Tingle are just about the only broads you ever ball lately and I think you only do that to be a respectable member of an unrespectable group that gets drunk once a week and gangbangs two fat cocktail waitresses.

To prevent any suggestion of unseemliness, the waitresses at restaurants frequented by students are always carefully selected from among a staid and elderly classy of women, by reason of which the German student can enjoy the delights of flirtation without fear and without reproach to anyone.

In a truly absurd departure from reality, at some point waiters temporarily became waitpersons, as if waiters and waitresses were somehow sexist terms.

The waitress brought more tea, Bids all the time gazing at Eny with a direct shining look.

Then the driver, having completed his mandatory flirtation with the bucktooth waitress, gave the bus horn a sharp blast.

Her father ran off, and the mother is the cocktail waitress at the Candlepin Castle.

Rosemary, a trim, attractive brunette of thirty-eight, was a former carhop who, after a series of waitress jobs and a bad marriage, had opened her own dress shop, the Boutique Carriage, on North Figueroa in Los Angeles, and made a big success of it.