wait on

Questions about wait on

What does wait on mean?

wait on means "work for or be a servant to".

What is another word for wait on?

Close synonyms include serve, attend to, attend, assist. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is wait on a common word?

wait on is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.