What does "waitress" mean?

A female attendant who serves customers in a restaurant, café, or similar.

What is a synonym for "waitress"?

Common synonyms include: barmaid, bartender, busboy, female server, gendered term, servant.

/ˈweɪ.tɹɪs/ noun, verb

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Noun

1
A female attendant who serves customers in a restaurant, café, or similar.
"a waitress in a cocktail bar."
2
a woman waiter wordnet

Verb

1
To work as a waitress.
"But it never did heal properly and Lizzie stayed on at the bar — waitressing until she came of legal age to bar-tend."
2
serve as a waiter or waitress in a restaurant wordnet

"Ben acted out the scene of the waitress spilling soup in his lap."

From waiter + -ess.