English Explanatory Dictionary

waitron

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A waiter or waitress.
noun
  1. A robotic or mechanical waiter.

Word forms

waitron waitrons

Etymology

Coined as a gender-neutral substitute for waiter and waitress, this is one of the few words with the gender-neutral suffix -ron to have seen much use, probably re-inforced by rhyming with patron. (Some references instead analyse it as using the same "machinelike" suffix -tron as waitron (“mechanical waiter”), but more likely it uses -ron like laundron and like waiter and waitress use -er/-ress not *-ter/*-tress.)

Synonyms

waitperson waitstaff server
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