Waiterとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈweɪtə/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈweɪtɚ/
• 韻: -eɪtə(ɹ)
• ハイフネーション: wait‧er

名詞

waiter (plural waiters)

1. A male or female attendant who serves customers at their tables in a restaurant, café or similar.

   Waiter! There's a fly in my soup.

   • 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter II, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

     She was a fat, round little woman, richly apparelled in velvet and lace, […] ; and the way she laughed, cackling like a hen, the way she talked to the waiters and the maid, […]—all these unexpected phenomena impelled one to hysterical mirth, and made one class her with such immortally ludicrous types as Ally Sloper, the Widow Twankey, or Miss Moucher.

   • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 5, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:

     A waiter brought his aperitif, which was a small scotch and soda, and as he sipped it gratefully he sighed.
       ‘Civilized,’ he said to Mr. Campion. ‘Humanizing.’ […] ‘Cigars and summer days and women in big hats with swansdown face-powder, that's what it reminds me of.’

2. 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.

3. (historical) A person working as an attendant at the London Stock Exchange.
4. (obsolete) A vessel or tray on which something is carried, as dishes, etc.; a salver. (See etymology of dumbwaiter.)
   • 1839, Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby:

     Cautioning her, in these terms, not to trip over a heterogeneous litter of pastry-cook’s trays, lamps, waiters full of glasses, and piles of rout seats which were strewn about the hall, plainly bespeaking a late party on the previous night, the man led the way to the second story […]

5. (obsolete) A custom house officer; a tide waiter.
6. (obsolete) A watchman.

派生語

関連する語

• wait
• waitress

派生した語

• → Bengali: ওয়েটার (ōẇeṭar)
• → Hindi: वेटर (veṭar)
• → Japanese: ウエーター (uētā)
• → Korean: 웨이터 (weiteo)
• → Urdu: ویٹر (vēṭar)

動詞

waiter (third-person singular simple present waiters, present participle waitering, simple past and past participle waitered)

1. (stative) To work as a waiter.
   • 1992, James Kenneth Melson, “Iowa Boy in the Windy City”, in The Golden Boy, The Haworth Press, →ISBN, page 46:

     I had definitely had my fill of factory jobs, but had never worked in an office, nor bussed, nor waitered.

   • 1993, Eric Gabriel Lehman, Quaspeck: A Novel, San Francisco, Calif.: Mercury House, →ISBN, page 102:

     He dropped out and waitered at the Spain but was fired for throwing water in a customer’s face.

   • 2008, Jim Haskins, Kathleen Benson, “John Jasper”, in African American Religious Leaders (Black Stars), John Wiley & Sons, Inc., page 43:

     John [Jasper] started out as a cart boy, helping the ox-cart driver manage the oxen; but he was so smart that he was soon transferred to the house, where he waitered and worked in the garden.

等位語

• waitress

参考

• barista
• bartender
• maître d'
• server

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