How do you use the word "waiter" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "waiter": The waiter brought a new plate. Waiter, please bring me some water.

Waiter

/ˈweɪ̯təː/

Definition, CEFR level A1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

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

nounSomeone who waits for somebody or something; a person who is waiting.

Sentence Examples

The waiter brought a new plate.

Waiter, please bring me some water.

I'll ask the waiter for the bill.

CEFR Practice Quiz

The ____ brought us our food and a glass of water at the restaurant.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

The ____ was very polite and helpful, recommending several of the most popular and delicious dishes on the menu today.

Word Origin & History

From late 14th century Middle English waiter, wayter (“attendant, watchman”). By surface analysis, 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.

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"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." — 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter II, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →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.’" — 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 5, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:

"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:

"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 […]" — 1839, Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby:

"I had definitely had my fill of factory jobs, but had never worked in an office, nor bussed, nor waitered." — 1992, James Kenneth Melson, “Iowa Boy in the Windy City”, in The Golden Boy, The Haworth Press, →ISBN, page 46:

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