waitress

Other forms of waitress

plural

waitresses·

past tense

waitressed·

present participle

waitressing·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about waitress

What does waitress mean?

waitress means "a woman waiter". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in waitress?

waitress has 2 syllables: wai-tress. The stress falls on "wai". In IPA it is /ˈweɪtɹəs/.

What is another word for waitress?

Close synonyms include wait. 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 waitress a common word?

waitress is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.