acquaintance vs waiter

acquaintance

noun
  • A person or persons with whom one is acquainted. 

  • A state of being acquainted with a person; originally indicating friendship, intimacy, but now suggesting a slight knowledge less deep than that of friendship; acquaintanceship. 

  • Personal knowledge (with a specific subject etc.). 

  • Such people collectively; one's circle of acquaintances (with plural concord). 

waiter

noun
  • Someone who waits for somebody or something; a person who is waiting. 

  • A person working as an attendant at the London Stock Exchange. 

  • A male or female attendant who serves customers at their tables in a restaurant, café or similar. 

verb
  • To work as a waiter. 

How often have the words acquaintance and waiter occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )