English Dictionary

wait on

動詞

口語 古語 前置詞句

To provide a service to (someone); to act as a servant to (someone); to serve (someone) as a waiter or waitress in a restaurant. / (colloquial) To wait for (a person).

日本語の意味

～に仕える、奉仕する / ～にサービスを提供する / レストランでウェイター・ウェイトレスとして給仕する / （口語）～を待つ

The new restaurant hired extra staff to wait on the growing number of customers during the weekend rush.

その新しいレストランは週末の混雑時に増え続ける顧客に接客するために追加のスタッフを雇った。

意味（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?

意味（2）

(colloquial) To wait for (a person).

I'm waiting on you before we can leave.

意味（3）

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

I'm waiting on the light to change.

意味（4）

To be in store for (someone).

the destruction that waits on Monarchs, who consider fidelity to them as the most degrading of all vices

意味（5）

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

In the Evening our Commander sent a Message to Mr. Jones, that if a Visit would not be troublesome he would wait on him.

意味（6）

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

that ruine which waits upon such a supine temper

意味（7）

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

Aaron and his sons […] shall wait on their priest’s office:

意味（8）

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

waits on （ present singular third-person ）

waiting on （ participle present ）

waited on （ participle past ）

waited on （ past ）