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Latin form of Greek Penelopeia, PENELOPE means "weaver of cunning." In mythology, this is the name of the patient wife of Odysseus who waited ten years for his return during which she refused several proposals of marriage by princes.
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English : patronymic from Waite.
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English : variant spelling of Waite.
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English : variant spelling of Waite.Thomas Wait came to MA from England in 1634. Samuel Wait (1789–1867), a Baptist clergyman, was born in White Creek, NY, organized Baptists in NC and helped found what became Wake Forest College (1838).
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English : patronymic from Waite.
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English : variant spelling of Waite.
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English : unexplained.
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Have Waited
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English : variant spelling of Waites.
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English : variant of Kilner.German, Dutch, and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : variant spelling of Kellner, in any of its senses: ‘cellarman’, ‘steward’, ‘overseer’, or ‘waiter’. In this spelling it is also found as a Czech name.Jewish (Ashkenazic) : occupational name from modern German Kellner or Yiddish kelner ‘waiter’.
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English : occupational name for a watchman, Anglo-Norman French waite (of Germanic origin; compare Wachter), or from the same word in its original abstract/collective sense, ‘the watch’. There may also have been some late confusion with White.
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English : variant spelling of Waite.
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(ΆÏγος) Greek name derived from the word argos, ARGOS means "bright, shining" and "swift." In mythology, this is the name of a giant who had a hundred eyes that were transferred to the peacock's tail after his death. This was also the name of Ulysses' dog who waited ten years for his return from the Trojan War.Â
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A boy or young man; a waiter; a servant; especially, a man or boy who has charge of horses, or the stable.
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A tray or waiter on which anything is presented.
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One who draws liquor for guests; a waiter in a taproom.
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One who, or that which, waits; an attendant; a servant in attendance, esp. at table.
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A flat, broad vessel on which dishes, glasses, etc., are carried; a waiter; a salver.
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A female waiter or attendant; a waiting maid or waiting woman.
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That which is expected, or looked or waited for with interest; the object of expectation or hope.
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A vessel or tray on which something is carried, as dishes, etc.; a salver.
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To cause to move or go; to send; to transfer from one person, place, or condition to another; to transmit; to deliver; to hand; to make over; as, the waiter passed bisquit and cheese; the torch was passed from hand to hand.
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A table waiter at the Inns of Court, London.
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A waiter.
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A lake whitefish; the roundfish. See Roundfish.
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See Landing waiter, under Landing, a.
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A hoisting machine; an elevator; a dumb waiter.
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A framework on which dishes, food, etc., are passed from one room or story of a house to another; a lift for dishes, etc.; also, a piece of furniture with movable or revolving shelves.
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