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wait on🔊

To provide a service to (someone); to act as a servant to (someone); to serve (someone) as a waiter or waitress in a restaurant.

📑 Synonyms: attend to Thesaurus:serve

(colloquial) To wait for (a person).

(colloquial) To wait for (a thing, or an event to take place).

To be in store for (someone).

📑 Synonyms: await

(archaic) To visit (someone) as a courtesy, on business or for ceremony.

📑 Synonyms: attend call on

(archaic) To occur as a consequence of (something), to result from (something).

(archaic) To carry out or perform (a duty, function, etc.).

📑 Synonyms: attend to

(of a hawk) To fly above its master, waiting till game is sprung.

(archaic) To court (someone).

(archaic) To obey and pay attention to (someone); to follow (a leader); to attend to (someone); to be subject to (someone).