garçon

• garcon

From French garçon (1788), from Old French garçun (“servant”), oblique case of gars, from Frankish *wrakjō (“servant, boy”), from Proto-Germanic *wrakjô (“exile, driven one”), from Proto-Indo-European *wreg- (“to drive”). Cognate with Old High German wrecheo, recko (“exile, warrior, hero”) (Modern German Recke), Old Saxon wrekkio (“a banished person, exile, stranger”), Old English wreċċa (“a wretch, stranger, exile”), and perhaps to Old Norse rekkr (“man, warrior, hero”). More at wretch, wreak.

garçon (plural garçons)

1. A male waiter (especially at a French restaurant).

• Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary: Tenth Edition (1997)

• Corgan, cargon

Borrowed from French garçon.

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garçon m (plural garçons, diminutive garçontje n)

1. waiter in a bar, restaurant etc.

   Synonyms: kelner, ober

From Old French garçon (“servant, boy”).

• IPA^(key): /ɡaʁ.sɔ̃/

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garçon m (plural garçons)

1. boy

   Il a deux garçons et une fille.

   He has two boys and a daughter.

   Synonym: gamin

2. (by extension) young man; man

   Synonym: homme

3. waiter

   Garçon, l'addition s'il vous plaît. ― Waiter, the bill please.

   Synonym: serveur

• garçonnet

• fille
• fils

• Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary: Tenth Edition (1997)

• “garçon” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• garçaon (Guernsey)

Borrowed from French garçon. Displaced native hardé.

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garçon m (plural garçons)

1. (Jersey) boy

• garson, garceon, garçun

From Medieval Latin garciō (“mercenary, servant, boy”).

garçon m (oblique plural garçons, nominative singular gars, nominative plural garçon)

1. manservant

   Synonym: vaslet

Borrowed from French garçon.

garçon m (plural garçons)

1. Alternative form of garçom