< /garˈsɔ̃/. French.
- (usually in direct address) a waiter in a restaurant.
- a boy or a young unmarried man.
- a male employee or servant.
noun
- a waiter or male servant, esp if French
“boy,” c.1300, from Old French garçun (11c.; Modern French garçon) “menial, servant-boy, page; man of base condition,” originally objective case of gars, perhaps from Frankish *wrakjo (cf. Old High German recko, Old Saxon wrekkio “a banished person, exile;” English wretch). Meaning “waiter” (especially one in a French restaurant) is from 1788.