Explore Waitress through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like waiter or server. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Waitress meaning
A female attendant who serves customers in a restaurant, café, or similar.
Using Waitress
- The main meaning on this page is: A female attendant who serves customers in a restaurant, café, or similar.
- Useful related words include: waiter, server, wait, work.
- In the example corpus, waitress often appears in combinations such as: as waitress, the waitress, waitress at.
Context around Waitress
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 10 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 0 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Waitress
- In this selection, "waitress" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, cocktail, former, ignorant, likes, suzanne and recommended stand out and add context to how "waitress" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a cocktail waitress and a cocktail waitress at the. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "waitress" sits close to words such as accolade, accompaniment and artistry, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with waitress
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Kayla was a waitress at that point. (7 words)
A very busy pub that the waitress recommended. (8 words)
However, her latest job is that of a waitress. (9 words)
Although there are not many details about Elly Conway out there, according to her author bio on Penguin Random House's website and her Instagram account, she is from upstate New York and previously worked as a waitress in a diner. (41 words)
Michael's new young wife is rich, and they conspire to kill her during a dinner theater performance they're starring in. Charlie Cale is working as a waitress at the dinner theater, and immediately smells a rat. (38 words)
After the breakdown of her first marriage, Raquel moved to Dallas with her two children and landed a job as a model for Neiman-Marcus while also working shifts as a cocktail waitress. (33 words)
La véritable histoire d'Amélie PoulainAmélie: The Real Story) reveals that the creative Parisian waitress was really a spy working for the KGB! (23 words)
Example sentences (20)
As a former waitress I can tell you that no waitress likes to hear a customer ask for hot tea instead of coffee.
After the breakdown of her first marriage, Raquel moved to Dallas with her two children and landed a job as a model for Neiman-Marcus while also working shifts as a cocktail waitress.
Also pictured are waitress Suzanne Jenkinson and young Marcus Sloan - who took part at short notice and ate 10 puddings to raise £20 for the appeal.
Although there are not many details about Elly Conway out there, according to her author bio on Penguin Random House's website and her Instagram account, she is from upstate New York and previously worked as a waitress in a diner.
Apparently there also used to be a pool table, but unlike the darts, our waitress was very clear she is delighted it’s gone as it was a “pain in her proverbial”.
A very busy pub that the waitress recommended.
Charlie spent years stalking the Waitress and refused to leave her alone even after she rejected him countless times and made it perfectly clear that she wasn’t interested in dating him.
Fred is a ticking time bomb of emotions, blowing up at an ignorant waitress, and the vein in Suzanne Clément’s forehead looks ready to burst as she spits out anger.
Having first met GB News presenter Farage in 2007 while working as a waitress, Ferrari has now also worked in politics for several years.
Her college summers were spent working at a resort in Woodruff, WI as a dining hostess and waitress.
His likeability was only heightened when joined by the wonderful Kirsty Cleland, as waitress and leading lady Julia Sullivan.
However, her latest job is that of a waitress.
In the book, the Dunne Brothers perform at a wedding — Camila is working as a cocktail waitress at the same event when Billy notices her.
I worked as a waitress, but lots of girls worked as golf cart girls, and the amount of affairs between them and some ridiculously 'important' people was wild.
Karyn Kusama talks about being in New York City and being a waitress and serving pancakes to David Lynch with lots of maple syrup.
Kayla was a waitress at that point.
La véritable histoire d'Amélie PoulainAmélie: The Real Story) reveals that the creative Parisian waitress was really a spy working for the KGB!
Leanne is an experienced chocolatier having worked at Charlotte's Chocolates in for several years, first as a waitress then she spent five years making the chocolates.
Michael's new young wife is rich, and they conspire to kill her during a dinner theater performance they're starring in. Charlie Cale is working as a waitress at the dinner theater, and immediately smells a rat.
One day around the holidays, another waitress had only two tables: one being Tyler Perry, and the other being some random patron.
Common combinations with waitress
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- as waitress 31×
- the waitress 25×
- waitress at 16×
- waitress and 15×
- waitress in 11×
- waitress was 10×
- and waitress 9×
- waitress for 7×
- waitress named 6×
- waitress the 6×