waiters
- 1Plural of waiter.
The restaurant hired three new waiters before the holiday rush.
Several waiters gathered near the kitchen to compare their orders.
Note
A regular plural, made with a plain -s, and it carries every meaning the singular has. Most often it means the staff who serve tables, men and women alike, but it can also mean people simply waiting. Older writing uses it for attendants at the London Stock Exchange, for tide waiters at the custom house, for watchmen, and even for trays that carried dishes, the sense that survives in dumbwaiter.
waiters is a form of waiter
waiter, noun: A person employed to serve food and drinks to customers at their tables in a restaurant, café, or similar place. Full entry
- Forms
- waiterwaiters plural
- Spelling
- waiter → waiters: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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