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attendant
English
Alternative forms
- attendaunt (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English attendant, attendaunt, from Old French attendant.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??t?nd?nt/
Noun
attendant (plural attendants)
- One who attends; one who works with or watches over something.
- A servant or valet.
- (chiefly archaic) A visitor or caller.
- That which accompanies or follows.
- (law) One who owes a duty or service to another.
Translations
Adjective
attendant (comparative more attendant, superlative most attendant)
- Going with; associated; concomitant.
- (law) Depending on, or owing duty or service to.
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Translations
See also
- part and parcel
French
Pronunciation
Verb
attendant
- present participle of attendre
Derived terms
- en attendant
- en attendant que
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /at?ten.dant/, [ät??t??n?d?än?t?]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /at?ten.dant/, [?t??t??n?d??n?t?]
Verb
attendant
- third-person plural present active subjunctive of attend?
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waiter
English
Etymology
Late 14th century, "attendant, watchman," agent noun from the verb wait +? -er. Sense of "servant who waits at tables" is from late 15th century, originally in reference to household servants; in reference to inns, eating houses, etc., it is attested from 1660s. Feminine form waitress first recorded 1834.
The London Stock Exchange sense harks back to the early days of trading in coffee-shops.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?we?t?/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?we?t?/
- Rhymes: -e?t?(?)
- Hyphenation: wait?er
Noun
waiter (plural waiters, feminine waitress)
- A male or female attendant who serves customers at their tables in a restaurant, café or similar.
- Someone who waits for somebody or something; a person who is waiting.
- 2013, Siciliani Luigi, Borowitz Michael, Moran Valerie, OECD Health Policy Studies: Waiting Time Policies in the Health Sector
- However, the NTPF also contained implicit negative incentives for the public sector by offering alternative private sector treatment for the longest waiters at no extra cost to patients or no penalty to public providers.
- 2013, Siciliani Luigi, Borowitz Michael, Moran Valerie, OECD Health Policy Studies: Waiting Time Policies in the Health Sector
- A person working as an attendant at the London Stock Exchange.
- (obsolete) A vessel or tray on which something is carried, as dishes, etc.; a salver. (See etymology of dumbwaiter.)
- (obsolete) A custom house officer; a tide waiter.
- (obsolete) A watchman.
Derived terms
- coast waiter
- dumbwaiter
- landwaiter
- tide waiter
Related terms
- wait
- waitress
Descendants
- ? Japanese: ????? (u?t?)
Translations
See also
- barista
- bartender
- maître d'
- server
References
Old French
Verb
waiter
- (Old Northern French, Anglo-Norman) Alternative form of gaitier
Conjugation
This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-ts, *-tt are modified to z, t. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.
References
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (waiter)
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