waitress
/ˈweɪ.tɹɪs/
waitress noun: a female attendant who serves customers in a restaurant, café, or similar.
Noun
waitress (plural waitresses)
- A female attendant who serves customers in a restaurant, café, or similar.
- a waitress in a cocktail bar.
- It would take a few more beers, but when the liquid courage kicked in, his wobbly legs were unable to keep pace with the fleetfooted waitress, who rolled her eyes, smiling, and finally twirled away.2007 August 12, Andrew Gensler, “Dancing Away the Heartache, Tacos Included”, in The New York Times
Verb
waitress (third-person singular simple present waitresses, present participle waitressing, simple past and past participle waitressed)
- To work as a waitress.
- But it never did heal properly and Lizzie stayed on at the bar — waitressing until she came of legal age to bar-tend.2004, Janelle Taylor, Dying To Marry
- The chefs never cooked before, the cashiers never cashiered before, the dishwashers never dishwashed before, the waitresses never waitressed before, and the managers never managed before.2007, Thomas Quealy, M + M
waitress meaning in Hindi, Marathi, Urdu and Bengali
waitress in Hindi
- female waiter
- वेट्रेस veṭres
waitress in Marathi
- वेटर्रेस
waitress in Urdu
- female waiter
- ویٹْریس veṭres
waitress in Bengali
- ওয়েট্রেস
More languagesFewer languages
- waitress in Telugu
- వెయిట్రెస్
- waitress in Punjabi
- ਵੇਟਰੈਸ, ਵੇਟਰੈੱਸ
- waitress in Gujarati
- વેઇટ્રેસ, વેઈટ્રેસ
- waitress in Odia
- ୱେଟ୍ରେସ
- waitress in Nepali
- वेटर्रेस, वेइट्रेस
- waitress in Arabic
- نَادِلَة nādila, جَرْسُونَة garsōna
- waitress in Thai
- สาวเสิร์ฟ sǎao-sə̀əp
- waitress in Vietnamese
- chị hầu bàn
- waitress in Myanmar
- စားပွဲထိုး ca:pwai:htui:
Examples of waitress in a sentence
- When the waitress brought the food, I asked whether she had any Dijon mustard.
- He really fell for the attractive waitress at his favorite restaurant.
- Yesterday our local restaurant malemployed a new waitress with a degree in astrophysics.
Forms of waitress
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | waitresses |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | waitresses |
| present participle | waitressing |
| past participle | waitressed |
| past | waitressed |
Origin of waitress
From waiter + -ess.
Words formed from waitress
Phrases with waitress
Questions about waitress
- What does waitress mean?
- Waitress means a female attendant who serves customers in a restaurant, café, or similar.
- What is waitress in Hindi?
- Waitress in Hindi is वेट्रेस (veṭres). See Waitress meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is waitress?
- Waitress can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce waitress?
- Waitress is pronounced /ˈweɪ.tɹɪs/.
- What is the plural of waitress?
- The plural of waitress is waitresses.
Words near waitress in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: waitress (page history and authors); waitress (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); waitress (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); waitress (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); waitress (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); waitress (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); waitress (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); waitress (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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