Wait On

Definition: Wait On

Wait On

Verb

1. Work for or be a servant to; "May I serve you?"; "She attends the old lady in the wheelchair"; "Can you wait on our table, please?"; "Is a salesperson assisting you?"; "The minister served the King for many years".

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Synonyms: Wait On

Accompaniment

Verb: accompany, coexist, attend; hang on, wait on; go hand in hand with; synchronize; bear company, keep company; row in the same boat; bring in its train; associate with, couple with.

Aid

Serve; do service to, tender to, pander to; administer to, subminister to, minister to; tend, attend, wait on; take care of; entertain; smooth the bed of death.

Food

Phrase: "across the walnuts and the wine"; "blessed hour of our dinners!"; "now good digestion wait on appetite, and health on both!"; "who can cloy the hungry edge of appetite?"

Crosswords: Wait On

You wouldn't wait on me. You work on commission right? (Pretty Woman; writing credit: J.F. Lawton.)

Got any prisoners who can wait on table? (Coup de torchon; writing credit: Jean Aurenche; Bertrand Tavernier)

Well you can wait on your blesses my darling (HUMAN TOUCH; performing artist: Bruce Springsteen)

Wait on me girl (I Guess That's Why They Call It The Blues; performing artist: Elton John)

You see the snakes in the grass and you wait on their ass (Anything; performing artist: Jay-Z)

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Places to live being very scarce, miners must sometimes wait on main country roads for help from others with all their belongings. No job, no home. Mohegan, West Virginia. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "wait on": To wait on ♦ wait on smb. ♦ wait on smth. ♦ wait on tables. Additional references.

Albanian

shërbej (act, attend, avail, fetch and carry, lackey, lacquey, minister, nurse, oblige, serve, wait, wait upon), rrjedh nga (supervene, wait upon). (various references)

Arabic 

‏قام على خدمة فلان, ‏سهر على راحته, ‏خدم (act, attend, be in service, dish out, further, ladle, serve out, tend, wait). (various references)

Bulgarian 

сервирам (bring, bring in, dish, help, serve, serve out, serve up, wait at table, wait upon), обслужвам (cater for, handle, maintain, service, tend, valet, wait upon), правя посещение на, прислужвам при хранене, придружавам (accompany, attend, convoy, escort, gallant, go with, punctuate, see, squire, string along with), идвам като резултат, идвам като последица. (various references)

Chinese 

伺 (to examine, to spy, to wait, to watch). (various references)

Czech

posluhovat komu u stolu (wait upon), posluhovat (serve, wait). (various references)

Finnish

tarjoilla jollekulle, palvella (attend on, serve, to serve, worship). (various references)

French

servir (wait), attendre (wait, wait for, watch), être au service de. (various references)

German

bedienen (assist, attend, attend to, handle, manipulate, operate, serve, service, to attend, to attend to, to operate, to serve, wait, waiting, work). (various references)

Greek 

περιμένω (abide, await, bide, contemplate, expect, hold on, wait), υπηρετώ (attend, lackey, minister, serve, service). (various references)

Hebrew 

לשרת (act as, fill an office, officiate, serve). (various references)

Hungarian

tiszteletét teszi, felszolgál (dish up, serve, to help, to serve, to serve at table, to serve up, to wait, to wait on tables). (various references)

Indonesian

melayani (attend, cater, take care of), meladeni (attend, cater, serve, take care of). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

付き添う (to accompany, to attend on, to chaperone, to escort and wait on, to wait upon). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

つきそう (to accompany, to attend on, to chaperone, to escort and wait on, to wait upon). (various references)

Manx

waiteil (attendance, waiting). (various references)

Pig Latin

aitway onay

Portuguese

servir alguém, ser criado de alguém. (various references)

Romanian

servi (assist, attend, avail, help, minister to, pitch, serve, set a dish on the table). (various references)

Russian 

наносить визит, прислуживать (attend, lackey, lacquey, minister, wait upon). (various references)

Scottish

freasdail (attend). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

služiti (officiate, serve, subserve, tend), dvoriti (minister, serve, wait upon). (various references)

Spanish

servir (accomodate, answer, attend, bear arms, bring in, dish up, do, help, issue, pour out, put on, serve, serve up, wait, wait at table, wait upon), presentar (advance, bring forward, bring in, bring on, come through with, come up with, conduct, display, enter, exhibit, feature, file, front, hand in, hold up, introduce, jump, launch, lay, Lodge, Marshal, model, offer, offer up, pay, port, prefer, present, present with, produce, promote, put, put across, put forward, put in, put on the stage, put over, put up, race, sacrifice, send in, send up, set out, show, submit, table, tackle, tender, troop, turn in, wait upon), mimar (canoodle, coax, coddle, cosset, fondle, humor, humour, indulge, mollycoddle, mother, pamper, pet, spoil, spoon feed), desvivirse (lean, long for), cumplimentar (carry out, greet, wait upon, welcome). (various references)

Swedish

betjäna (attend, attend on, attend to, operate, serve), avvakta (await). (various references)

Turkish

ziyaret etmek (call, call at, call on, call upon, come by, come over, come round, haunt, look up, make a visit, pay a visit, stop by, visit, wait upon), servis yapmak (dish, dish out, dish up, help smb. to smth., serve, serve up, wait, wait at table), refakât etmek (accompany, attend on smb., companion, consort, convoy, escort, squire, wait upon), hizmet etmek (administer, attend, render service to, serve, subserve, tend, wait upon), eşlik etmek (accompany, attend, come along, companion, consort, convoy, escort, go along, go with, herd, keep smb. company, wait upon, walk), bakmak (answer, attend, behold, care for, concern oneself, consider, consult, deem, do for, face, feed, fend for, find, Foster, front, front on to, give a look, groom, have a frontage on, have a look-see, keep, look, look after, look at, look on, look out, look through, look upon, maintain, make sure, nurse, overlook, put out to nurse, refer, regard, scan, see, see to, set eyes on, sight, sit in, suckle, superintend, supervise, support, survey, take a gander, take a look, take a look at, tend, turn up, view, wait upon, watch). (various references)

Ukrainian

робити візит, прислужувати. (various references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Misspellings

"Wait On" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: waiton. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: twain, witan.

-2 letters: anti, into, iota, naoi, nota, nowt, tain, town, twin, wain, wait, want, wino, wont.

-3 letters: ain, ait, ani, ant, awn, ion, naw, nit, not, now, oat, own, tan, tao, taw, tin, ton, tow, twa, two, wan, wat, win, wit, won, wot.

-4 letters: ai, an, at, aw, in, it, na, no, on.

+2 letters: wainscot.

+3 letters: antiwoman, boatswain, dawsonite, outlawing, paintwork, satinwood, tallowing, wainscots, wantoning.

+4 letters: antigrowth, batfowling, boatswains, dawsonites, downstairs, nationwide, outbawling, outdrawing, outfawning, outgnawing, outwaiting, outwalking, outwarring, outwasting, outwearing, paintworks, pitchwoman, satinwoods, wainscoted, waitperson, womanliest.

+5 letters: browbeating, cabinetwork, outbrawling, outcrawling, outswearing, outwatching, outwearying, postweaning, showboating, tomahawking, wainscoting, wainscotted, waitpersons, witenagemot, workstation.