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Definition: Waitress |
WaitressNoun1. A woman waiter. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "waitress" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1838. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A waiter is a man (female waitress or the gender-neutral "server") who "waits" on tables, often at a restaurant.Waiters' and waitresses' duties include preparing tables for a meal, taking customers' orders and serving drinks and food in a restaurant. Depending on the type of restaurant, this may involve other uncommon duties, such as a Western-themed restaurant may require waiters and waitresses to line dance.
Certain fantasy books (notably including The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series by Douglas Adams) refer to an alternate math invented and used by waiters. This is an extension of traditional mathematics which takes into account not only the mere numbers involved in a calculation but also the context of the situation where the calculation takes place. It is a wholistic approach to mathematics and much more complex than normal mathematics, which results in it not being reproducible and financially beneficial to the waiter.
See also: flight attendant
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Waiter."
Crosswords: Waitress |
| English words defined with "waitress": bunny, bunny girl ♦ do work ♦ pay ♦ work. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "waitress": Eating ♦ Smith Charm. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Lord, I'd just like to thank You for that waitress in South Bend (A League of Their Own; writing credit: Kim Wilson; Kelly Candaele) I'm a waitress. (As Good As It Gets; writing credit: Mark Andrus) How did you make $1100 as a waitress in a week (Family Guy; writing credit: Dolores Payás) That waitress downtown wished her husband was a frog - you made him French (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) You'll never waitress in Torquay again (Fawlty Towers; writing credit: John Cleese; Connie Booth) | |
Lyrics | And the waitress is practicing politics ("Piano Man"; performing artist: Billy Joel) But I know no matter what the waitress brings (Run-Around; performing artist: Blues Traveler) I went home with the waitress (Lawyers, Guns And Money; performing artist: Warren Zevon; writing credit: Warren Zevon) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Waitress Françoise Durocher (1972) Night Waitress (1936) Snakeville's New Waitress (1914) Landscape with Waitress (1986) Head Waitress (1984) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Steel production. Hot coffee for steel workers. A waitress serves employees of a big Eastern plant in the company restaurant. Republic, Youngstown. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Production. Blood transfusion bottles. Valve needles for blood transfusion donor bottles are inspected for defects by Betty McGrath, an employee of Baxter Laboratories, Glenview, Illinois. Miss McGrath was formerly a waitress; her sister is an Army nurse. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Kaiser shipyards, Richmond, California. Miss Eastine Cowner, a former waitress, is helping in her job as a scaler to construct the Liberty ship SS George Washington Carver. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Pitcairn, Pennsylvania. Miss Helen Gusmerotti, twenty-nine, employed at the Pennsylvania Railroad as a car repairmen's helper, earning seventy-two cents per hour. Miss Gusmerotti is burning holes in the hopper car sides. She was formerly a waitress. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Turkey Pond, near Concord, New Hampshire. Women workers employed by a U.S. Department of Agriculture timber salvage sawmill. Ruth De Roche, eighteen year old "pit woman," used to be a waitress. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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Bill Hicks | I was in Nashville, Tennesee last year, after the show I went to a Waffle House, I'm not proud of it, I was hungry. And I'm alone, I'm eating and I'm reading a book, right? Waitress walks over to me, "Tch tch tch tch. Hey, what you readin' for?" |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Inside, one man, the truck driver, sat on a stool and rested his elbows on the counter and looked over his coffee at the lean and lonely waitress. |
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| "Waitress" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 96.93% of the time. "Waitress" is used about 293 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 96.93% | 284 | 17,292 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.71% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 1.02% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 0.34% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 293 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "waitress": waitress-work. | |
Ending with "waitress": ex-waitress. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "waitress"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | kelnerin. (various references) | |
Albanian | kamariere. (various references) | |
Arabic | نادلة, خادمة الزبائن في المطعم, خادمة الزبائن في الحانة. (various references) | |
Asturian | camarera. (various references) | |
Basque | zerbitzaria. (various references) | |
Bemba | kapembela mwanakashi. (various references) | |
Breton | servijourez. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | сервитьорка, келнерка (hebe). (various references) | |
Catalan | cambrera. (various references) | |
Cebuano | sirbidora. (various references) | |
Chamorro | kamarera. (various references) | |
Chinese | 服務" (server, waiter), 女服务员. (various references) | |
Cornish | maghteth. (various references) | |
Croatian | konobarica. (various references) | |
Czech | èíšnice. (various references) | |
Danish | servitrice (dining-room waitress). (various references) | |
Dutch | serveerster (dining-room waitress), kelnerin. (various references) | |
Ecuadorian Quechua | carac huarmi. (various references) | |
Esperanto | kelnerino. (various references) | |
Faeroese | servitrisa. (various references) | |
Finnish | tarjoilijatar (barmaid, stewardess), tarjoilija (barman, bartender, steward, waiter). (various references) | |
Flemish | kelnerin. (various references) | |
French | serveuse (waiting maid). (various references) | |
French Canadian | serveuse. (various references) | |
Frisian | kelnerinne, betsjinde. (various references) | |
Galician | camareira. (various references) | |
German | Kellnerin (waitresses), Serviererin, Bedienung (attendance, crew, handling, operating, operation, service, service charge, sevice, staff, waiting). (various references) | |
Greek | σερβιτόρα (barmaid, parlor maid, parlour maid). (various references) | |
Hawaiian | kamariere. (various references) | |
Hebrew | מלצרית. (various references) | |
Hungarian | pincérnõ (barmaid, nippy). (various references) | |
Inuktitut | pijiqtiraqti niqivvikmi aqnaq. (various references) | |
Irish | bhanfhreastalaí, banfhreastalaí. (various references) | |
Italian | cameriera (chambermaid, dresser, housemaid, maid). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 酌婦 (barmaid), 接客婦 (hostess), 姉さ" (elder sister, girl), 姉さ" (elder sister, girl, wife who is older than her husband), 女給 (hostess), 仲居 , ウェーバーの法則 (on-deck batter's circle, rag, taking a pitch, wafer, wafers, waist, waist bag, waist nipper, waist pouch, waistcoat, waistline, wait, waiter, waiting circle, waiting game, waiting room, waiting system, Wales, walk rally, walk through, walkathon, walkie-lookie, walkie-talkie, walking dictionary, walking shoes, Walkman, war cry, war game, ware, -ware, warehouse, warm, warming, warming-up, warm-up, warning lamp, waste ball, water chute, water closet, water hazard, water polo, watercolor, watercooler, waterfall, waterfront, watermelon, waterproof, watertight, wave, wave-front, way, weapon, wear, weather, weathercock, weatherstrip molding, web, Weber, Weber's law, wedding, wedding bell, wedding cake, wedding dress, wedding march, wedding ring, wedding veil, wedeling, wedge heel, wedge sole, weight, weight lifting, weight training, welcome, well-done, west, West Coast, West End, West Point, West Side, West Virginia, western, Western grip, Western league, Western music, Westinghouse, wet, wet core, wet cut, wet suit, worm gear), ウイルス病 (jacket, Vienna coffee, Vienna sausage, Viennese, Viennese waltz, viral disease, virus disease, wait, waiter, Weber, Wiener, Wimbledon, winch, wind, windbreaker, windfall, windjacket, window, window display, window dressing, window shopping, Windsor char, windsurfer, windsurfing, wing, wing collar, wink, Winker, winter resort, winter sports). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | なかい, しゃくふ (barmaid), ねえさ" (elder sister, girl), せっきゃくふ (hostess), ウェートレス , ウェイトレス , ウエートレス , じょきゅう (hostess). (various references) | |
Korean | 대부. (various references) | |
Luxembourgish | serveuse. (various references) | |
Macedonian | kelnerka. (various references) | |
Manx | caillin (colleen, girl, lass, maid, young woman). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | aitressway.(various references) | |
Portuguese | garçonete (barmaid), empregada de cafetaria, empregada (maid, shadoof, shop assistant, shopgirl), criada de mesa. (various references) | |
Portuguese Brazilian | empregada. (various references) | |
Provencal | serviciala. (various references) | |
Romanian | ospãtãriţã, chelneriþã, chelneriţã (barmaid, tapster). (various references) | |
Russian | официантка, подавальщица. (various references) | |
Samoan | aiga. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | konobarica (barmaid, hebe), kelnerica. (various references) | |
Slovene | natakarica. (various references) | |
Somali | adeegto. (various references) | |
Spanish | camarera (barmaid, chambermaid, dressing-gown, maid, stewardess). (various references) | |
Swahili | mhudumu. (various references) | |
Swedish | uppasserska, servitris. (various references) | |
Tagalog | weytres. (various references) | |
Turkish | garson kız, garson (carhop, nippy, waiter), bayan (Dame, female, lady, lady's, madam, Madame, Miss, missis, mistress, mrs, Mrs., Mrs./Ms., ms, ms., spinster, unmarried woman, woman). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | офіціантка (nippy), подавальниця. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | chị hầu b n. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | pedisequae, pedisequas. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "waitress": waitressed, waitresses, waitressing. (additional references) | |
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"Waitress" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: wiatress. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "waitress" (pronounced wā"trus) |
| 4 | -t r u s | actress, ambidextrous, buttress, citrus, dextrous, disastrous, estrous, estrus, fortress, headmistress, huntress, idolatrous, lustrous, mattress, mistress, monstrous, nitrous, seamstress, temptress. |
| 3 | -r u s | ambassadress, arris, Brontosaurus, chorus, Cirrus, congress, Cypress, Cyprus, cytomegalovirus, desirous, embarrass, ferrous, fibrous, hantavirus, heiress, hubris, hydrous, Iris, ludicrous, Madras, maquiladoras, Morris, nonferrous, ogress, polyandrous, porous, puris, retrovirus, sorus, stegosaurus, terrace, thesaurus, Tyrannosaurus, virus, walrus, wondrous. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: waisters, wastries. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-i-r-s-s-t-w" | |
-1 letter: satires, waister, waiters, wariest, wasters, wastrie. | |
-2 letters: airest, arises, assert, asters, raises, rawest, resaws, resist, satire, sawers, serais, sewars, siesta, sister, sistra, sitars, stairs, stares, straws, strews, striae, swears, sweats, tassie, tawers, tawses, terais, twiers, waists, waiter, waster, wastes, waters, wisest, wrasse, wrests, wriest, wrists, writes. | |
-3 letters: airts, arise, arses, arsis, asset, aster. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-i-r-s-s-t-w" | |
+1 letter: strawiest, wasteries, wisterias. | |
+2 letters: dishwaters, earwitness, sawtimbers, scrawliest, scrawniest, sprawliest, stairwells, swarthiest, sweatshirt, tawdriness, waitressed, waitresses, wateriness, watersides, welfarists. | |
+3 letters: stewardship, swarthiness, sweatshirts, sweetbriars, waitpersons, waitressing, washaterias, washeterias. | |
+4 letters: earwitnesses, springwaters, stewardships, strawberries, tawdrinesses, towardliness, waterinesses, waterishness, waterskiings, whitewashers, windlestraws, witchgrasses, wristwatches. | |
+5 letters: airworthiness, seaworthiness, swarthinesses, switchgrasses, watermanships, withdrawnness. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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