See waiter in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"forms": [
{
"form": "waiter",
"tags": [
"singular"
]
},
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"form": "waiters",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
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"expansion": "[POS TABLE]",
"name": "noun"
}
],
"hyphenation": "wait‧er",
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
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"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"text": "I'm trying to get the waiter to bring our bill but he isn't looking this way."
}
],
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"A waiter is the person at a restaurant who takes your order and brings the food to you."
],
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],
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"word": "server"
}
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈweɪtə/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈweɪtɚ/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"audio": "en-us-waiter.ogg",
"tags": [
"US"
]
}
],
"word": "waiter"
}
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "waiter",
"tags": [
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "waiters",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
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{
"expansion": "[POS TABLE]",
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}
],
"hyphenation": "wait‧er",
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],
"examples": [
{
"text": "I'm trying to get the waiter to bring our bill but he isn't looking this way."
}
],
"glosses": [
"A waiter is the person at a restaurant who takes your order and brings the food to you."
],
"raw_tags": [
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],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "server"
}
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈweɪtə/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈweɪtɚ/",
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"US"
]
},
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"tags": [
"US"
]
}
],
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}
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-04-02 from the simplewiktionary dump dated 2025-03-21 using wiktextract (db8a5a5 and fb63907). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
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