Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

tide waiter

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.48 in modern English

Syllables: tide wait-er
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A customs inspector at a seaport who oversees the landing of goods from merchant vessels in order to secure payment of duties.

British usage

noun

A person who watches public opinion before declaring their own.

Example Sentences

""Your morning letters, if I remember right, were from a fish-monger and a tide-waiter.""
"Great employments are and will be in the hands of Englishmen; nothing left for the younger sons of Irishmen, but vicarages, tidewaiters places, &c. therefore no reason to make them worse."

Usage

British usage

Inflected Forms

tide waiters (plural) tidewaiter (alternative)

Derived Forms

tidewaitership

Phrases

tide surveyor

Frequently Paired Words

tide surveyor

Questions

What does tide waiter mean?: A customs inspector at a seaport who oversees the landing of goods from merchant vessels in order to secure payment of duties.

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