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Noun: waiter  wey-tu(r)
  1. A person whose occupation is to serve at table (as in a restaurant)
    "The waiter efficiently took orders from multiple tables";
    - server, waitperson, waitron [US, S.Africa]
     
  2. A person who waits or awaits
    "The anxious waiter in the hospital lobby hoped for good news about his wife's surgery"

Derived forms: waiters

Type of: actor, dining-room attendant, doer, restaurant attendant, worker

Encyclopedia: Waiter, Make Mine Blues