Dumbwaiter Definition

dŭmwātər
noun
A small, portable stand for serving food, often with shelves.
Webster's New World
A small elevator for sending food, trash, etc. from one floor to another.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
  • food elevator

Other Word Forms of Dumbwaiter

Noun

Singular:
dumbwaiter
Plural:
dumbwaiters

Origin of Dumbwaiter

  • From dumb ("unable to speak") + waiter, originally separate words and describing the portable table's inability to relate gossip after the meal. By the use of the term to describe small service elevators in American homes in the 1840s, it simply meant dumb as "mechanical", "unable to speak at all".

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