Refine this word faster
Wait on
verb, slang
Definitions
Verb
- 1 To provide a service to (someone); to act as a servant to (someone); to serve (someone) as a waiter or waitress in a restaurant.
"Is someone waiting on you yet?"
- 2 work for, or be a servant to wordnet
- 3 To wait for (a person). colloquial
"I'm waiting on you before we can leave."
- 4 To wait for (a thing, or an event to take place). colloquial
"I'm waiting on the light to change."
- 5 To be in store for (someone).
"the destruction that waits on Monarchs, who consider fidelity to them as the most degrading of all vices"
Show 6 more definitions
- 6 To visit (someone) as a courtesy, on business or for ceremony. archaic
"In the Evening our Commander sent a Message to Mr. Jones, that if a Visit would not be troublesome he would wait on him."
- 7 To occur as a consequence of (something), to result from (something). archaic
"that ruine which waits upon such a supine temper"
- 8 To carry out or perform (a duty, function, etc.). archaic
"Aaron and his sons […] shall wait on their priest’s office:"
- 9 To fly above its master, waiting till game is sprung.
- 10 To court (someone). US, archaic, colloquial
- 11 To obey and pay attention to (someone); to follow (a leader); to attend to (someone); to be subject to (someone). archaic
See also for "wait on"
Next best steps
Mini challenge
Unscramble this word: waiton